We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"The solution can scale."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The solution is not scalable."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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