We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"It's easy to use."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The support system could be improved."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [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 StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". McAfee StoneGate [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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