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."The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"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."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"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 could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"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."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
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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