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."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."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"Good user interface."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"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."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"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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