We performed a comparison between Perimeter 81 and Sophos 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"Our operators can work from home without any problems."
"Perimeter 81 is very pretty."
"Even after restarting, it tries to quickly reestablish connection which is very helpful."
"The benefits are really built into the underlying protocol, however, Perimeter81 makes these available in a user-friendly way."
"Perimeter 81 has increased my security and privacy while maintaining solid internet performance."
"It has provided a seamless gateway to much-needed platforms."
"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the reputation that the company has regarding privacy. Nowadays, this is critical, especially when you do all of your work online."
"Distributing the agent was very simple, allowing us to enforce security posture on our devices (i.e. S1, Disk-encryption, etc.)."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"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."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Perimeter 81 could enhance its reporting and analytics capabilities to provide more detailed insights into network activity."
"In order to have to bypass the login using the website, a good feature for Perimeter 81 to have is a login instance in the Perimeter 81 application. I'm using a Mac and we don't have that functionality."
"Offering in-app explanations detailing what each feature does, its benefits and potential use cases can help users better understand and utilize the tool to its full potential."
"One of our challenges is ensuring the security of our cloud-based operations."
"Currently, I am not able to define a different country or location, which can result in negative experiences as the tool is being recognized by websites and this can make it difficult to access them or force me to disable the program temporarily."
"If I were to be nitpicky, I would ask that Perimeter 81 offer the option for us to change the color of the graphical user interface, like maybe pink or green or so on."
"I have found that the log-in/out process takes quite some time."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"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."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
Perimeter 81 is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 22 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Perimeter 81 vs. Sophos UTM report.
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