pfSense vs Sophos XG
We performed a comparison between pfSense vs Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance."
"I am happy with the EPLS, the radius, and I am happy with the captive portal."
"The redundancy and scalability ARE very nice."
"The most valuable feature, for instance, is the ease of migrating configurations between different Netgate devices housed in the same box."
"The ability to create a VPN allows me to monitor branch offices from a central location."
"The solution has good performance and is easy to use."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"What we found valuable is the way they deal with emails, as well as the way the bandwidth usage is shown."
"It gives me a very good, stable connection in all tunnels."
"Because of the pandemic, the VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The solution's most valuable feature stems from its ability to protect our organization's web servers."
"I like the firewall, inbound, and outbound modules the most. The VPN feature also works well. It is very easy to configure rules in Sophos XG. We have got local service here in Zimbabwe from Sophos, which is something that I like a lot. We have got good local support, and they come on-site when we have any challenges. Sophos provides a lot of good training all around Zimbabwe. They are quite dominant here, similar to other solutions like Fortinet or WatchGuard."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The support system could be improved."
"Network monitoring and device inventory could use some improvements. I'm using SpiceWorks for this because it never really worked in pfSense."
"We have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"This product needs improvements with respect to reporting and auditing."
"I would like the update process to be easier, to update the firmware of the boxes. I think it's much better automatically than having to do it manually: Download the file, do network discovery. I they can make the update process much more automatic that would help."
"Technical support can be slow to respond, which is something that should be improved."
"We are not very happy with the customer support they provide — it's quite slow."
"Sophos XG's user interface has some room for improvement."
"Technical support is difficult to access."
"I used to work with Fortinet, and sometimes I see that the SD-WAN feature could be better because it's much easier in Fortinet."
"I would like to have a more efficient login process."
"The interface of Sophos XG could be improved. I would prefer the Sophos XG to have an interface for the technician who is setting it up similar to the Sophos SG. I felt the Sophos SG user interface was superior. however, in terms of the functionality of the product, Sophos XG is in many ways more powerful than the Sophos SG. I have no complaints about the quality of the product or the end result. For someone who has used both, I preferred the old interface to the new one."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos UTM, KerioControl, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos XG report.
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