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 next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The solution can scale well."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"Good user interface."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"It could be more secure."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
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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