"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"The most important feature is the intensive way you can troubleshoot Cisco Firepower Firewalls. You can go to the bit level to see why traffic is not handled in the correct way, and the majority of the time it's a networking issue and not a firewall issue. You can solve any problem without Cisco TAC help, because you can go very deeply under the hood to find out how traffic is flowing and whether it is not flowing as expected. That is something I have never seen with other brands."
"The integration of network and workload micro-segmentation helps a lot to provide unified segmentation policies across east-west and north-south traffic. One concrete example is with Cisco ACI for the data center. Not only are we doing what is called a service graph on the ACI to make sure that we can filter traffic east-west between two endpoints in the same network, but when we go north-south or east-west, we can then leverage what we have on the network with SGTs on Cisco ISE. Once you build your matrix, it is very easy to filter in and out on east-west or north-south traffic."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It is easy to manage."
"This is a very stable product."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"It's mainly the UI and the management parts that need improvement. The most impactful feature when you're using it is the user interface and the user experience."
"I would like it to have faster deployment times. A typical deployment could take two to three minutes. Sometimes, it depends on the situation. It is better than it was in the past, but it could always use improvement."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"One of the few things that are brought up is that for the overall management, it would be great to have a cloud instance of that. And not only just a cloud instance, but one of the areas that we've looked at is using an HA type of cloud. To have the ability to have a device file within a cloud. If we had an issue with one, the other one would pick up automatically."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Sophos UTM is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 24 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 2 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "Great web and email filtering with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Low cost but unresponsive technical support and very unstable performance". Sophos UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall and Kerio Control, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall NSa. See our Sophos UTM vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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