We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The solution is stable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"It could be more secure."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The product only has basic features."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". 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 Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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