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How Fortinet Position Sophos

Fortinet Approach Sophos Overview Sophos is an endpoint focused company

not a firewall
Fortinet Small and Mid-size Business • Sophos targets mainly SMB, mid and
Security delivers easy-to-manage network, distributed enterprise markets
cloud, and endpoint security solutions that Xstream architecture is nothing but
• Sophos was impacted with 450 layoffs
share intelligence to protect against all
in Jan 2023 and change in CFO offloading and HW acceleration which
forms of cyber threat.
• Sophos launched XGS series with
Fortinet ASIC is already capable of
Fortinet SMB Security is a market-leading
SF-OS v18.5 with Xstream architecture
security platform that scales with your business
– reducing workloads while optimizing security. • Sophos is Niche in the Gartner MQ for On license expiry all network traffic
network firewall 2022 and was not including VPN tunnels will be disabled
Fortinet Key Pillars qualified for Wired & Wireless and
Security Driven Networking SD-WAN for Gartner MQ 2022
FortiGate, SD-WAN, LTE, SASE, SD-RED is just a branch connectivity VPN
FortiSwitch, & FortiAP Sophos Products device, stability issues due to backhaul
• Firewall (XG, XGS, & SG) traffic to HQ
Adaptive Cloud Security
• Intercept X
Public Cloud, CWP, WAF, Secure
• Managed Threat Response (MTR)
E-mail, & CASB TLS1.3 is supported, but neither
• Cloud Security validated nor published in their datasheet
Security Operations • Sophos Central
SIEM, SOAR, Sandboxing, XDR,
• E-mail
EDR & FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer Sophos XGS firewall Xstream architecture
• Secure Web Gateway
and Access points claims high DPI performance numbers
Zero Trust Access but does not reflect real-world performance
ZTNA, IAM, NAC, Phones, & Voice

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FortiGate vs Sophos
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Fortinet Differentiators
How To Win
Questions to Against Sophos
Fortinet Offers Superior Proactively blocks newly be asked…
Security discovered sophisticated Fortinet provides a Security Fabric for
attacks in real-time with Are you concerned about the SMB with full security stack and
advanced threat protection 1 your performance with simplified management
Integrated wired and HTTPS enabled?
wireless networking to Easy Deployment and Management
simplify IT Industry leader in the Are you looking for business with FortiGate Cloud
Gartner MQ 2022 for 2 continuity with Secure
Network Firewall SD-WAN and SD-Branch? Secure SD-Branch capability
Purpose-built hardware for for scalable business
Do you need a vendor that
industry best performance provides unified software and
3 Flexible and easy management of
with easy administration Unified perimeter and compatible hardware? FortiGate's in FortiExplorer mobile APP
through cloud management Network policy through a
single-pane-of-glass How simple and easy to
Price/Performance with industry
management console 4 manage your network from
Provides consolidated lowest TCO
single-pane-management?
security and networking Leaders in Gartner SD-WAN, NGFW and
for small businesses and Industry recognized SoC4 Do your need solutions that
have been tested, validated recommended in SD-Branch
consistently provides with SD-WAN ASIC 5
top-rated threat protection security acceleration and recommended by 3rd
party tester? TLS 1.3 – superior SSL inspection
performance

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FGT FGT FGT FGT FGT

XGS87 XGS107 XGS116 Key Capabilities Fortinet Sophos
40F 60F 70F 80F 90G
Simplified NGFW
5 10 10 10 27.9 3.7 7 7.7 Flow and Proxy Flow
Firewall Security Policies
Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps

TLS1.3 TLS1.3
Sessions/ SSL/TLS Inspection
35,000 35,000 35,000 45,000 124K 35,700 44,400 61,500 (Validated) (Not validated)
sec
Application Steering Yes Limited
4.4 6.5 6.1 6.5 25 750 900 1.1
IPsec VPN Mbps Mbps Gbps
Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Limited
Secure SD-WAN Yes
(Not certified)
490 900 405 950 1.4
SSL VPN N/A N/A N/A FOS NAC Yes No
Mbps Mbps Mbps Mbps Gbps
SD-Branch Yes Limited
1 1.4 1.4 1.4 4.5 1.05 1.3 2
IPS Gbps Gbps Gbps
Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps RED
SSL-VPN Yes
(Stability issues)
310 630 700 715 2.6 375 420 650
SSL/TLS Mbps Mbps Mbps
Mbps Mbps Mbps Mbps Gbps Security Contexts (VDOMS) Security Fabric No

Security Ratings Yes No

990 1.8 1.8 1.8 6.7
App Control N/A N/A N/A
Mbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps
Separate license and
ZTNA policies FortiGate
separate device
800 1 1 1 2.5 700 1.05 2
NGFW Mbps Gbps Gbps
Mbps Gbps Gbps Gbps Gbps AI Malware detection FortiGuard Part of EDR

Threat 600 700 800 900 2.2 240 330 685 Cloud Management FortiGate Cloud Sophos Central
Prevention Mbps Mbps Mbps Mbps Gbps Mbps Mbps Mbps
Video filtering Comprehensive No

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