We performed a comparison between Sophos XG and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The stability of Sophos XG is very good. However, there have been some issues with other weaker models because they are limited in hardware in resources."
"The solution is easy to set up and configure."
"The most valuable features are its nice interfaces and configuration. The endpoint is also very good."
"Web filtering is easy enough to deploy, manage, or make exceptions to."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is that it scans all of the data for any kind of malware."
"Over the past two years, during the COVID pandemic, the VPN has helped us a lot."
"All of the features are amazing, especially Sandstorm, which prevents bad traffic or downloaded files from reaching our customers' and partners' networks."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Sometimes when you roll out a new firmware, you find that the rules you already have in place are broken, so it's difficult to migrate to a new firmware. That's the only downside I've experienced in Sophos."
"The product's technical support services could be better."
"The program is rather expensive."
"In the product, the area revolving around SD-WAN has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The manuals or guides we are given are too simple. When we are implementing the product, it is difficult for us as we don't have more detailed information."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"The solution could be more secure."
"I would like to have a more efficient login process."
"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 XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". 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 XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, WatchGuard Firebox, SonicWall TZ and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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