We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XGS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"Sophos XGS that's a good firewall. If you use the endpoint, then you have what Sophos calls synchronized security. That will mean that if one of the endpoints is affected, it will be automatically set in isolation."
"The solution is very user-friendly, and the GUI is so good that I don't have to use the CLI. This eliminates the need for typing; clicking allows me to get to what I'm looking for."
"The solution is scalable."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"Compared to other products, Sophos XGS is a user-friendly solution."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I like the Sophos UI. It interface has a more comfortable feel than the competitors."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"The solution could improve inspection processes and troubleshooting for VPNs because this area is very weak."
"Sophos XGS would benefit from further development in the SD-WAN area."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"It would be nice to have features like the network access control (NAC) that Cisco has for Identity Services Engine. In the next release, I would also like to see an increase in the performance of the processing units."
"Sophos XGS needs improvement with the threshold values. Other solutions have the capacity to handle more users."
"In the new release 19, there should be the implementation of a cloud service that you can use to set up the IPSec tunnels, and the SD-WAN from the WAN dashboard, and then you can push that configuration out to every firewall that you have."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"The application is a little slow; it takes five to ten seconds to respond to every click when configuring. If we need to do significant configuration, it can take a lot of time. This might be because we have a low-end machine, and it could be faster with a high-end one."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XGS report.
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