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."Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"You can scale the solution."
"Performance is a strong point."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The product is worth the investment."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The UI could be improved."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The support system could be improved."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"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."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The reporting is lacking."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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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