Sophos vs Fortinet vs CheckPoint

SupraWez · 20 Feb 2018 at 17:01

Hey All,

What would people recommend for SME solution, currently looking at Sophos XG85, Checkpoint 1450 and possibly something from Fortinet.

Interested to hear peoples experience on each.

Thanks

ChrisD. · 21 Feb 2018 at 08:33

Go with whatever is cheapest, meets the requirements and what you have experience in.

SupraWez · 21 Feb 2018 at 08:52

I use Fortinet and CheckPoint regularly, I am not a big fan of the Fortinet I have to work with, the CheckPoints are very nice but a little expensive for a small installation. I have tried the free Sophos download in a VM running on a QNAP and seems quite nice, sadly the QNAP really wasn't up to running it effectively.

Am currently thinking the Sophos might be best as on paper it performs well for the money, only thing I am not 100% sure on is the subscription services, need to compare each unit for ongoing running costs.

Caged · 21 Feb 2018 at 12:26

All UTMs are differing levels of bad. If you're comfortable with CheckPoint then buy another one of those. I think the Sophos approach to configuring things is a bit noddy and will wind you up after a while - also the performance absolutely tanks once you start to turn things on.

neil_g · 21 Feb 2018 at 13:48

Ran an old sophos utm125 and had most things turned on, performed okay.