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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ContentProtect

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AContentWatch in Salt Lake City, Utah offers ContentProtect, a web content filtering solution.N/A

    Cyberoam

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ASophos’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.N/A
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    ContentProtectCyberoam
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    ContentProtectCyberoam
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    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ContentProtectCyberoam
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of ContentProtect and Cyberoam
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    ContentProtect
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    Ratings
    Cyberoam
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
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    ContentProtectCyberoam
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    Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ContentProtectCyberoam
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    ContentProtectCyberoam
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ContentWatch
    If you are looking for something relatively inexpensive to lock down specific computers, it would be a useful tool. If the computers themselves aren't too locked down, implementation and management shouldn't be too difficult.
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    Cyberoam
    Our organization found that Cyberoam is a cost-effective solution compared to other vendors. Cyberoam was having issues with SSO for Web Filtering. For, web filtering and application blocking, Cyberoam does not contain enough signatures or data so we can not achieve the goal of all of the sites that need to be blocked. Cyberoam is great because of its ease of use feature.
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    Pros
    ContentWatch
    • The client is relatively light weight and doesn't impact other applications.
    • The client isn't easily bypassed, so the user's are kept under restrictions.
    • The configuration is relatively simple and easy to deploy.
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    Cyberoam
    • Accurate and precise bandwidth shaping
    • Utm features are completely reliable,uses mainly for conducting exams smoothly.
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    Cons
    ContentWatch
    • Our primary policy is a restricted list, so that does as advertised. We had one location that had blocks based on categories (adult, illegal, etc). We continually had issues with sites getting completely blocked due to unrelated content. For example, Yahoo had a beer ad on the page, alcohol was blocked, so Yahoo became blocked for the period of time that ad was displayed. We had this happen multiple times and eventually switched to a different solution at that location.
    • I've had issues with their cloud portal not working. I don't have to edit our configuration often, but on numerous occasions, i was unable to get the configuration page to load after login, sometimes for days. The platform just wasn't stable when I needed it to be.
    • We run many of our remote rooms as frozen (after logoff they reset to the image). This works fine most times, but when content protect needs a configuration change pushed down, someone needs to go 'thaw' the computers, download the updated configuration, and re-'freeze' the computer. It would be nice if that information was just dynamic from the cloud and didn't need to be pulled down.
    • The categorization used for policies is very limited and not flexible or easily customizable.
    • I could never get the usage reporting to work.
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    Cyberoam
    • 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.
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    ContentWatch
    At the time ContentProtect was selected, Forcepoint (Websense at the time) didn't have an inexpensive or cloud type product. The same can be said with Cisco, at that time. Recently, we have reevaluated and are going to be transitioning to Forcepoint's mobile client and removing ContentProtect from our environment. The cost is actually now less and we will be able to get both more dynamic control and also give us more detailed reporting on the traffic from clients.
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    Cyberoam
    The main factor is cost, as we are a startup organization. That's the main reason we choose Cyberoam stacks up against other network security services.
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    Return on Investment
    ContentWatch
    • It was a relatively inexpensive and simple solution when we needed one relatively quickly, which is a positive. The inexpensive price has kept it in the environment.
    • The lack of reliable reporting has lead to the need for an alternate monitoring solution in a few cases. Network level reporting was used, which is a separate expense, configuration.
    • Time has been lost waiting on the portal and then troubleshooting support tickets when sites that shouldn't have been blocked have been blocked. It has resulted in changes for locations that needed dynamic category filtering as opposed to a finite list.
    • The blocking of sites based on add traffic or sub-sites (rather than just blocking that content like other solutions) has resulted in downtime during classes when those sites were listed in the lesson plan and had previously worked.
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    Cyberoam
    • 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.
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