Fortinet FortiGate vs. Sophos UTM

Sophos UTM

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiGate	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.	N/A
Sophos UTM	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Sophos UTM provides core firewall features, plus sandboxing and AI threat detection for advanced network security. It has customizable deployment options.	N/A

Pricing

Fortinet FortiGate

Sophos UTM

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.

t2.small - $0.123 - Total / hr m3.medium - $0.417 - Total / hr m3.large - $0.883 - Total / hr m3.xlarge - $1.366 - Total / hr m3.2xlarge- $1.982 - Total / hr c3.large - $0.555 - Total / hr c3.xlarge - $1.11 - Total / hr c3.2xlarge - $1.72 - Total / hr c3.4xlarge - $2.59 - Total / hr c3.8xlarge - $3.68 - Total / hr c4.large - $0.55 - Total / hr c4.xlarge - $1.099 - Total / hr c4.2xlarge - $1.698 - Total / hr c4.4xlarge - $2.546 - Total / hr c4.8xlarge - $3.841 - Total / hr m4.large - $0.868 - Total / hr m4.xlarge - $1.365 - Total / hr m4.2xlarge- $1.931 - Total / hr

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Community Pulse
	Fortinet FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Considered Both Products	FortiGate Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate FortiGate has inbuilt SDWAN features along with Next Gen Firewall. Checkpoint Firewall dont have inbult SDWAN Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Some of them are great products, but overall Fortinet gives more for less. Also it is really easy to manage for almost everyone. As you should have at least a double layer, with different manufacturers, this is a great choice Incentivized Helpful? VY Vishnu Yadav IT executive Chose FortiGate We choose Fortinet FortiGate because it provides AI-powered security services and offers more advanced threat protection and response capabilities than Sonicwall TZ Incentivized Helpful? GM Gustavo Mendez CyberSecurity Leader Chose FortiGate We migrate from Cisco ASA solution to Fortinet FortiGate solution. The technical feactures and easy operation were the most driver of our evaluation. Finally the high level of Cost over Benefit was very relevant in the project evaluation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate The Fortinet products have been chosen because of our previous experience with them. The FortiClient is always used with our roaming users together theRedHAt authentications services and the IPS and Web Filtering addons are used, together the WAF, to strengthen our network … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Great subscription services and easy branch office VPN configuration. Also a big plus for 2FA via Forti Token integration. Incentivized Helpful? JG Julien Guffroy Network Engineer Chose FortiGate Money is the sinews of war but clearly Fortinet FortiGate and other product like fortimanager for extend and adminstrate remotes sites with dedicated or template of configuration is perfect, same thing with the wortianalyzer as you can find quickly any log from trafic log to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate The FortiGate is a next generation firewall and has more features and more flexibility compared to the Sophos UTM devices and the older SonicWall devices. Technical support from Fortinet is far superior to SonicWall and Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tufts Director of Network Services Chose FortiGate Better than Juniper, and Checkpoint. Not as good as the Palo Alto although it cost less so I would still make the choice to go with Fortinet Incentivized Helpful? Diksha Limbachiya Server and Network Admin Chose FortiGate Integrated security features multiple security in one platform, cost effective, centralized management, saclability like its models are availble from small to large enterprise for provide proper throughput according to size we can select model.documentation of all features are … Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect Chose FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is an all-round Network Security solution with advanced Next Generation Firewall features. The purpose built hardware provides unparalleled performance when compared to other similar solutions. The licensing model is very flexible and accommodates networks … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is above other products in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate An excellent ratio of functionality and cost of the solution, the UTM subscription and a wide partner network determined our choice of the Fortinet FortiGate. The solution met all the defined requirements, including personal data protection. Local vendors like UserGate were … Incentivized Helpful? JV Josue Vargas Applications Engineer Chose FortiGate Has more features and it's easier to understand. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate As mentioned in the previous sections, Fortigate is best suited for our use cases of SDWAN, load balancing, SSL VPN, IPSec Tunnels, Bandwidth allocation (per IP, per user based ). Comparing with Palo Alto NGFW and Cisco ASA, the SD WAN and link load balancing based on the … Incentivized Helpful? Chantel Moreno Finance & Accounting Professional Chose FortiGate I stick with this program because of many reasons like it is extremely robust and scalable, as well as simple to set up. Protecting an organization's data is one Incentivized Helpful? Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor Chose FortiGate [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the … Incentivized Helpful? VM VINAY Mandora Sr Team Leader Chose FortiGate Cisco ASA is [a] good product but you can't say this is providing the security from every points. Lots of features are missing in Cisco ASA but Fortinet [FortiGate] is fully loaded and all the advanced features are available for secure your company. Incentivized Helpful? Vinit Sharma Network Administrator Chose FortiGate We are previously using cisco ASA in our environment & always concerned regarding security because ransomware attacks are increasing day by day. After implementing Fortinet FortiGate we are getting a bucket of security features at almost the same cost with the best technical … Incentivized Helpful? Basant Gupta Executive System Admin Chose FortiGate We have both devices Fortinet FortiGate and ASA with firepower services, but [the] main difference is price. The price is [less for] Fortinet FortiGate and we are getting the all features. Email filtering and DLP is extra features and very advanced which we will get only in … Incentivized Helpful? Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Chose FortiGate [Fortinet] Fortigate saved us with raising our availability a lot. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Sonic wall as a firewall also gives us its main function as the Fortinet FortiGate. Sonic Wall is best suited when you want to use it to connect your cloud environment to your private on-premise network. But on reputation most vendors prefer or recommend Fortinet Fortigate if … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Dous Senior Network Security Engineer Chose FortiGate ASA Firewall PaloAlto Sophos Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Meyer Sr Linux Engineer Chose FortiGate Fortinet code configuration is a little bit cleaner, it has sub-modules for different components. One of the nice things about Juniper and pitfalls is that you drop out to the FreeBSD command line if there are any issues. Fortinet and Cisco do not have that capability. … Incentivized Helpful?	Sophos UTM NB Nate Binkley Network System Administrator Chose Sophos UTM I would rate Sophos second on this list right below Webroot. Webroot has an easier user interface and policy builder. However, Sophos would be on top of its UI would be improved. I would rank CrowStrike third and McAfee last. Sophos is great for complex environments that have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos UTM We replaced our SonicWall with a Sophos UTM. The SonicWall didn't do half of the things the Sophos UTM can do. We wanted an all in one solution that was increased security and was easy to use. Managing Sophos compared to Sonicwall has been so much easier. It has saved us a lot … Incentivized Helpful? PC Paul Cheng IT Manager Chose Sophos UTM The Linksys was a router, so the comparison isn't quite the same, but I previously worked on a SonicWall firewall. The setup is by far easier on the Sophos UTM device. That alone makes it enticing, but thrown multiple services options such as email and web filtering, endpoint … Incentivized Helpful? Matt James Systems Administrator \| POS Programming Specialist Chose Sophos UTM The Meraki firewalls are kind of like the little brother of the UTM devices. They work really well and integrate nicely, but it would be better suited for a business that using nothing but Meraki gear. pfSense is a great free tool, but not very business oriented nor is the … Incentivized Helpful? Jon Shurtliff IT Director Chose Sophos UTM The high feature set of Sophos, along with the price point made it a perfect fit for our organization. Of course, we were promised many features and capabilities, and I'm happy to report that this tool delivered on all of those. On top of that, or resale partner recommended it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos UTM Unlike Sophos UTM, Dell SonicWall's features are mostly subscription based which means you'll have to purchase additional items such as VPN connectivity per user etc. Incentivized Helpful? Karim Kronfli Head of IT Chose Sophos UTM All firewalls take some learning to get used to the interface, but the Sophos UTM makes more sense than the Cisco ASA or the SonicWall interface. As an experienced engineer who has used dozens of different routers it was easy to figure out how to configure what I needed. Sophos … Incentivized Helpful? Juan Carlos Sanchez Pignalosa CEO And Founder Chose Sophos UTM Sophos delivers great throughput, and great and simple WebGUI. There is no other honest (or even capable) high availability scenario for industries that needs 99% of uptime (almost everyone, since now everyone relies on the Internet). Robust hardware and in the software … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Gutter Senior Network Engineer Chose Sophos UTM I use it at home because it's better than just using a Wireless Router; has more features than most home users require and or know exists, such as the ability to use VPN to protect your connection if you're using public WIFI. Incentivized Helpful?

TrustRadius Insights
	Fortinet FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published July 31, 2020 Fortinet FortiGate and Sophos Unified Threat Management (UTM) are both Next Generation Firewall products. Beyond core firewall capabilities, they each offered extended features like VPN support and web filtering. FortiGate is known for delivering a very cost-effective next generation firewall. Unique configurability and licensing flexibility makes FortiGate well suited for growing or scaling companies with changing security needs. Sophos is more focused on the midsized company to small enterprise range with additional UTM security features. Features Fortinet FortiGate and Sophos UTM both have some unique features or structures to serve their respective audiences. FortiGate stands out for its cost effectiveness among leading NGFW products. Users can tailor which capabilities and features they purchase at a very granular level, which helps companies only pay for exactly what security features they’re using. This allows companies to select from Fortigate’s advanced NGFW features, like intrusion prevention and VPN enablement. Sophos excels at making extended capabilities more accessible and easy to use. For instance, Sophos UTM offers sandboxing and email protection, among other more specialized security features. Sophos also provides excellent VPN tunnel capabilities for encrypted site-to-site connections. Reviewers claim these features are relatively easy to deploy and implement as well. Limitations There are also drawbacks or limitations to FortiGate and Sophos UTM worth considering. FortiGate’s customizability comes with a greater learning burden. Reviewers frequently point it a steeper learning curve, partially due to less automated configuration. This requires more manual actions and change management in order to make use of FortiGate’s superior flexibility and configurability. Customer support is also not consistent, as the vendor has been known to deflect to other channel partners, whose customer support can vary case-by-case. On the other hand, while Sophos makes advanced capabilities more accessible, its baseline policy management is not as simple as FortiGate allows. Some analyses have found Sophos to be less effective at threat prevention, and there are some compatibility issues with Sophos’s cloud offerings. Pricing Fortinet FortiGate is available by quote from the vendor, with a customized package for each business’s needs. Sophos UTM is also priced by quote, with pricing impacted by deployment model, licensed modules, and additional add-ons for management or reporting options.

Features

Fortinet FortiGate

Sophos UTM

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Fortinet FortiGate 8.9 Ratings 3% above category average	Sophos UTM - Ratings
Identification Technologies	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content Inspection	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
VPN	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
High Availability	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Proxy Server	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Fortinet FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Small Businesses	pfSense Score 9.9 out of 10	pfSense Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways Score 9.6 out of 10	Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series Score 10.0 out of 10	Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Fortinet FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (0 ratings)	7.9 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortinet FortiGate	Sophos UTM
Likelihood to Recommend	We reviewed many different vendors product offerings, we found the Fortinet FortiGate to best fit our needs. We upgraded from a previous firewall, the migration was a fairly easy process. We were also able to consolidate multiple firewalls into one unit using vdoms. It's been helpful to have one pain of glass, one support contract and easy to work with support. These firewalls are feature rich which is great, but the support contracts are expensive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sophos is a very powerful anti-virus program that can be used in small and big businesses. Sophos has multiple features that can be customized to fit IT and business needs. Sophos would be less appropriate for IT personnel that do not have the time or knowledge of implementing the problem. The setup of its policies can be very complex. Incentivized NB Nate Binkley Network System Administrator Read full review
Pros	It is the most reliable NGFW that we have ever been touch with it. You can easily upgrade the firewall cluster firmware without user attention!!! User IDentity based feature is fantastic and intrusion prevention just works with least false-positive possible. Very reachfull and intuitive GUI, just love it Incentivized Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Read full review	Firewall Protection. The protection is unmatched, setup it a little daunting, but once set up it pretty much runs itself. Site-to-site VPN. Super easy to deploy so we are able to network all our sites together. The DHCP server function is actually really nice, I prefer using it over the traditional way of using a DC for DHCP. Incentivized Matthew James Systems Administrator \| POS Programming Specialist Read full review
Cons	When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Better standard support, it used to be great, now, not so much (for paying customers, that only aquired the Hardware) Better wireless solution, there is always room for that, now that everybody needs robust wifi, even at home! Faster and more robust wireless Access Points, or different vendor-like compatibility. Incentivized Juan Carlos Sanchez Pignalosa CEO And Founder Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	The user interface shared among many simultaneous users is very easy to get around. With shared favorites among users, most tasks are easily bookmarked and can quickly be found and edited. Their strategy for web filter integration is easy to understand and manage as well. With some general direction, setup and maintenance were easy to do and easy to teach others in the organization to do as well. Incentivized JW Jeff Winter IS Director Read full review	The interface is no non-sense and easy to understand. No need for any consultants to help implement this solution. The performance is consistent and solid. Paired with a good amount of firmware and definitions, it's hard to find any fault in this product. It's interoperability with other Sophos products make a compelling argument to invest in more Sophos products. Incentivized PC Paul Cheng IT Manager Read full review
Reliability and Availability	We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	We live in Turkey. Fortinet's Turkey office [dealt] constantly with us in our every problem or our experience. In addition, global support teams also supported every ticket we opened in every problem we encountered. They support innovative approaches and evaluate and offer solutions. In this context, they were very supportive of the problems we encountered in previous versions. TT Tayfun Toka Senior Security Supervisor Read full review	I find the support fair. The wait can be frustrating when dealing with fire. The pandemic has not helped with this. Although the wait can be long, the support reps are knowledgeable and was able to resolve the issues I was facing. Incentivized MC Michael Cattano Sr. Systems Engineer Read full review
In-Person Training	I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version Incentivized Steve Jenovai Systems Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly communicate with non technical members of staff. The Fortinet FortiGate unit is also extremely stable for long periods of time without showing signs of needing a reboot. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The Linksys was a router, so the comparison isn't quite the same, but I previously worked on a SonicWall firewall. The setup is by far easier on the Sophos UTM device. That alone makes it enticing, but thrown multiple services options such as email and web filtering, endpoint support, seamless WAP and RED device integration and it wasn't a very hard decision to make. Incentivized PC Paul Cheng IT Manager Read full review
Scalability	My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	SD-WAN : Can't stress it further that we are very happy with this functionality and outcomes in the org. We have multiple WAN and MPLS links and traffic switching becomes an important in order to utilize the best performing line. QoS : We use QoS for almost all internet traffic, be it Web browsing by users, IOT segment, Application based traffic policy and VIP and normal user based bandwidth allocation. SSL and IPSec VPN, both features are fully used to it absolute capacity. IPSec tunnels with multiple sister companies across globe. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Sophos has provided a secure Firewall for us. Integration with Sophos Central makes it easier to manage both. Site to site VPN Failover groups has caused more trouble than it's worth. High availability doesn't recognize when you are restarting for an update. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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