We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSSP 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 interface is very good."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"Good user interface."
"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."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our SonicWall NSSP vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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