We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"The pricing is an issue."
"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."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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