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 can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"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."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The IPSec configuration is going 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."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"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."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"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."
"Technical support could be faster."
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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