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."FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"The user interface is good."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"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 virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Good user interface."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The performance has been good overall."
"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."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"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."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"The reporting is lacking."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The setup process should be improved."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"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."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"Its scalability is not that great."
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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