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."It can expand easily."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"Good user interface."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"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."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"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."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
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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