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 license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"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 command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"Good user interface."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The product is worth the investment."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"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."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"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 product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
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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