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Cyberoam

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7 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Cyberoam?

Sophos’s Cyberoam offers UTM and NGFW products. Cyberoam provides the full suite of modularized firewall services, as well as real-time reporting, for enterprise-level use.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Cyberoam has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • High Availability

    Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

    Category average: 9.2

  • Stateful Inspection

    Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

    Category average: 8.8

  • Proxy Server

    A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Identification Technologies

    Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content

    Category average: 8.3

  • Active Directory and LDAP

    Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories

    Category average: 8.4

  • Content Inspection

    Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Cyberoam.
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Precise traffic shaping, advanced and updated UTM features.

Incentivized
Sachin VinayView profile
Network Administrator in Information Technology at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cyberoam was being used in one of our branch offices, we could easily manage 100 employees with accurate UTM features. Traffic shaping is also highly reliable, bandwidth was properly shared among staff with Cyberoam. We could also prioritize based on the sudden bandwidth requirements, overall good for medium utilities and enterprises.

Pros

  • Accurate and precise bandwidth shaping
  • Utm features are completely reliable,uses mainly for conducting exams smoothly.

Cons

  • SD Wan features require more clarity.
  • Traffic shaping policy is a missing feature.

Return on Investment

  • Considerable change was noted in the utilization of administrators after switching from the software firewall.
  • It is relatively better priced when compared to fortigate.
  • Better log handling after the switch.

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

Cyberoam- cost effective network security solution.

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cyberoam security service in our organization's IT department. Cyberoam firewall security scan network data based on source and destination IP criteria so that it can allow or block request for Internet or network access to protect from viruses. Cyberoam makes it easy for our Network administrators to grant network limited access, bandwidth, and software/URL/application access based on the user's identity to company employees.

Pros

  • Firewall logs is good thing that provided by Cyberoam.
  • Alerts and logs provided for different type of attacks and actions taken.
  • Ease of use functionality.

Cons

  • Cyberoam doesn't have enough signatures to detect all sites that need to be blocked.
  • Costing is high comparatively other firewall providers.
  • significantly increasing cost factor for maintenance contract.

Return on Investment

  • Firewall Management Console provided by Cyberoam is great compared to other providers.
  • Logs and console provided is more descriptive.
  • Costing is escalating fast for purchased plans.

Alternatives Considered

Sophos UTM and Fortinet FortiGate

Other Software Used

Kaspersky Cybersecurity Services, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos UTM

Cyberoam Champions CIPA Compliance

Incentivized
Mark YapView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at University of Hawaii at Manoa (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use compared to other firewall/UTM products
  • Good for SMB and enterprise, but also high marks for a K-12 use case
  • Longevity and reliability

Cons

  • Without mentioning an alternative brand, there is another leading company who has updated with firewall UI quite a bit. They offer an expanded line-up to meet a wider array of needs including specific appliances for web caching, proxy servers, and other products that have the same and familiar UI across the products. Each of the products does have some overlap so that customers can choose the right appliance for their use case.
  • After being acquired by Sophos, we saw our year-over-year costs escalate significantly since our original maintenance contract. They should consider revisiting the pricing, especially for education.
  • They should consider a current market analysis and see how the market is changing and adapting with other lower cost appliances for their product line up.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - time and cost savings on management
  • Positive - still best in class for ease of CIPA compliance for K-12
  • Negative - escalating costs are pushing us away from the solution

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate and Aruba Networks Wireless

Other Software Used

Cylance, McAfee, Malwarebytes