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."Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"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."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"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."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The product only has basic features."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
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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