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 response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"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."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"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."
"The product only has basic features."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"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."
"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 workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"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."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
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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