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 interface is very good."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The scalability is fine."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The tool is stable."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"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."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"It isn't missing anything."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
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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