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 payment function for applications is good."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"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."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"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."
"Technical support is excellent."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Good user interface."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"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."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"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."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
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, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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