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 security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"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."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
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, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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