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."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The scalability is fine."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"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 tool is stable."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"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 did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"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."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
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, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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