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."It performs very well."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"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."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"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 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 documentation is not straightforward."
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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