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 features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Good load balancing feature."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"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."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"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."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"Technical support is excellent."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"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."
"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."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
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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