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 features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The port forwarding is good."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"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."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The product only has basic features."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"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."
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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