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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"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."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"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 initial setup was straightforward."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"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."
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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