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 how we can achieve total integration."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The product offers very good security."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The GUI is good."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"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 most valuable feature is robustness."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"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 initial setup is complex."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"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."
"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 price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
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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