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.
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"Performance is a strong point."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"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 solution is easy to integrate."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The scalability could be better."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"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."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, SonicWall NSa and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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