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 most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"You can scale the solution."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"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."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"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."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The user interface could be improved."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"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 GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
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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