We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense 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 CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"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."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The redundancy and scalability ARE very nice."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"The concurrent users are perfect for us."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"The tool is stable."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"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."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner."
"The usage reports can be better."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"The integration of pfSense with EPS and EDS could be better. Also, it should be easier to get reports on how many users are connecting simultaneously and how sections connect in real-time."
"A malware blocker should be included. I do not know if it is included yet. However, until now, we have not experienced a large malware invasion."
"pfSense is not user-friendly. I hope to have something to make the interfaces more user-friendly."
"As an open-source solution, there are so many loopholes happening within the product. By design, no one is taking ownership of it, and that is worrisome to me."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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