What is Sophos?

Sophos is also a good shortlist contender for SMBs, especially for lower-midsize business and distributed office use cases that value ease of use, security features and firewall/endpoint integration. They cater to organizations with between 100 and 5,000 employees.

Sophos Firewall Manager is the name of the centralized management software, and Sophos Central is the cloud-based centralized management portal for all Sophos security products.

What is Fortinet?

Fortinet FortiGate offers an excellent Security and SD-WAN solution in a compact fan-less desktop form factor for enterprise branch offices and mid-sized businesses. Protect against cyber threats with industry-leading secure SD-WAN in a simple, affordable, and easy to deploy solution.

6 Things to Know about Fortinet

Easy Deployment and Management with FortiGate Cloud.
Secure SD-Branch capability for scalable business.
Flexible and easy management of FortiGate’s in Forti Explorer mobile APP
Price/Performance with industry lowest TCO
Gartner and NSS labs recommended Secure SD-WAN.
TLS 1.3 – superior SSL inspection performance.

Fortinet Differentiator

Fortinet Offers Superior Security

Integrated wired and wireless networking to simplify IT
Purpose-built hardware for industry best performance with easy administration through cloud management
Provides consolidated security and networking for small businesses and consistently provides top-rated threat protection
Proactively blocks newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real-time with advanced threat protection
Industry leader in the Gartner MQ for Network Firewall
NSS Labs NGFW Top rated and recommended with lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
NSS Labs SD-WAN and Gartner Top-3 SD-WAN vendors based on 2019 WAN Edge MQ
Unified perimeter and Network policy through a single-pane-of-glass management console
Industry recognized SoC4 with SD-WAN ASIC security acceleration

Open Architecture that integrates with your existing security solutions to increase ROI

Secure SD-Branch which integrates Switch, AP, and NAC
Unified Software and features across all the NGFW platforms.
Superior visibility and control
Offering today’s encryption standards (TLS 1.3 support) and providing superior SSL Inspection without impacting network performance
Extensive Cloud Management & Simplicity through FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager Cloud, FortiAnalyzer Cloud, and FortiExplorer