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Sophos UTM VS ferm

Compare Sophos UTM VS ferm and see what are their differences

Sophos UTM logo Sophos UTM

Sophos UTM integrates complete security software within a single appliance.

ferm logo ferm

ferm is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex...
  • Sophos UTM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-09-29
  • ferm Landing page
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    2019-06-05

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Sophos UTM and ferm)
Monitoring Tools
78 78%
22% 22
Firewall
63 63%
37% 37
Cyber Security
81 81%
19% 19
Security & Privacy
60 60%
40% 40

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Reviews

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Sophos UTM Reviews

11 Best pfsense Alternatives To Secure Your Network
Sophos UTM supplied all of the essential functions that were required. For any installer, it is easy to use and operate.
10 Best pfSense Alternatives and Similar Firewalls
Sophos UTM provided all of the necessary fundamental functions. It is simple to use and administer for any integrator.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, ferm seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Sophos UTM mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Sophos UTM yet. Tracking of Sophos UTM recommendations started around Mar 2021.

ferm mentions (4)

  • DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables
    I remember hating shorewall and similar ones because, well, I know iptables, and I know exactly what I want so using anything that tries to abstract it into it's own approach is torture as I need to take the rules I want and translate it to whatever mediocre paradigm shorewall (or ufw, or near-any other firewall manager in the wild) decided to put on top of iptables. I ended up using ferm... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
  • what is your favourite firewall frontend?
    I'm a big fan of ferm. Many major distros have it readily available as a package, and it makes for beautifully readable firewall definitions. Source: about 1 year ago
  • anyone use a front-end to iptables?
    The last time I needed to do complex iptables stuff, I found FERM really helpful. The structured config language greatly reduces the amount of boilerplate code you have to type, while still having a pretty direct mapping to the emitted iptables rules. A bit like compiling sass to css. Source: about 2 years ago
  • dog: An open source firewall management system for packs of firewalls (iptables)
    Also just about last thing I want is to deploy another configuration management system alongside the system that manages everything else on machine. Currently we just use Puppet to deploy ferm rules (which is best described as "iptables+", naming convention and such are still iptables-like but a lot of macros/syntax sugar around it). Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sophos UTM and ferm, you can also consider the following products

Symantec Email Security.cloud - Symantec Email Security.cloud provides always-on, inbound and outbound email security against malware, targeted attacks, and advanced threats

ufw - Ufw stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is program for managing a netfilter firewall.

pfSense - pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more

Advanced Policy Firewall - Server-based firewall.

SonicWall - SonicWall security solutions protects your network, systems, users and data from cyber threats.

Shorewall - The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as “Shorewall”, is high-level tool for configuring...