We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM, Sophos UTM, and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, Cisco, WatchGuard and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."The solution is easy to use."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software."
"It is stable and does not require you to reboot all the time."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"It configures in all-in-one place."
"Reputation Enabled Defense indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"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."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
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