We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"The solution is not scalable."
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McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] 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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