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 feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"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 very fast and easy to configure."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"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."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"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."
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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