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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"It could be more secure."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"It isn't missing anything."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
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, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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