We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and WatchGuard Firebox 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."Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"There are no problems with the technical support. If a problem occurs it gets resolved immediately with our technical support partners."
"WatchGuard has a very easy VPN and branch office VPN setup, so we use those pretty extensively."
"One of my favorite features is the Geolocation service, where you can actually block specific activity or IP addresses registered to certain countries. For example, I don't want any web traffic from Russia or North Korea. I may even lock down certain policies down to 'I only want U.S. IP addresses.' I find that very useful."
"Their support is excellent, and the stability is very good."
"Efficient to setup, run, and maintain. Saving man hours and cost in the process."
"All of the features have been valuable. There's nothing on my M270 that I'm not using. If you have remote access, you can see how many users are coming from the outside world to be connected to the systems, through the virus systems that we have behind the firewall, in order to gain access to their files and do their work. We can also see how long they stay online and whether these connections are closed forcefully or for any other reasons, such as a glitch or some kind of misbehavior, to see if internet traffic is optimized and if that particular traffic is under company policies, concerning which websites were visited."
"Simple to move settings between WatchGuard boxes."
"The product's usability is good. It is straightforward and simple. One of the benefits is that it is easy to navigate and intuitive."
"Application management can be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"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 is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Reporting is something you've got to set up separately. It's one of those things that you've got to put some time into. One of the options is to set up a local report server, which is what I did. It's not great. It's okay... Some of the stuff is a little complicated to get up and running. Once you do, it becomes very user-friendly and easy to work with, but I find there are some implementation headaches with some of their stuff."
"This is a great product and offers great protection but they don't hear the customers' needs. They don't make improvements as per the customers' requests."
"The documentation for the System Manager/Dimension configuration, could be a little bit clearer... The use case where you have multiple sites with multiple firewalls, and one site that has the System Manager server and the Dimension server, wasn't really well defined. It took me a little bit of digging to get that to actually work."
"Cloud-based central administration of all devices from one point would be nice"
"There are a couple of things I wished that it would do, but I can't think of those off the top of my head."
"Due to their lack of investment in marketing, channel development, and certifications, WatchGuard faces challenges in gaining visibility and market share, especially in regions like Pakistan."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"I would like to see the devices made more flexible by adding modules to increase the ports that we can use."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 78 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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