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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"It's easily scalable."
"The scalability is fine."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"Technical support is perfect."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The product is worth the investment."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The solution is very expensive."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The scalability could be better."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The UI could be improved."
"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."
"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 interface could be more user-friendly."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"It isn't missing anything."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, SonicWall NSa and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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