We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The interface is very good."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The SD-WAN feature stands out as the most valuable aspect."
"Easy to deploy and user friendly."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The most valuable features are the reporting, dashboards, and graphical user interface. It gives a good overall picture of what is happening over the network."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The pricing could always be better."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"There are issues with electricity with this solution."
"The solution could improve by making the graphical interface better and increasing the performance."
"The response time could stand improvement."
"It would be beneficial if the platform provided more flexible support for a variety of devices."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
"On reports, they sometimes give a summary, but it lists different users as unknown. There are times that I really want to know which user or which IP is causing a problem."
"SD-WAN can be improved."
"SD-WAN needs to be improved because it often fails at the network security level."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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