We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, Cisco, WatchGuard and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"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."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"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 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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