We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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