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."We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The user interface is good."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The product is worth the investment."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"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 technical support has room for improvement."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"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."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"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."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 18 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 27 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 "Useful telecom industry functionality, simple deployment, but lacking features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "A versatile solution that comes with valuable security features like geofencing and traffic shaping". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, 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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