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 appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"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 GUI is simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"They've become quite expensive."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The setup process should be improved."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"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."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"Technical support could be faster."
"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."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
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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