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 interface is very good."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The scalability is fine."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"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."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It could be more secure."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"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."
"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 blocking needs to be improved."
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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