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."It has improved our organization with control data."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"The user interface is 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."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"It is very easy to use."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Technical support is excellent."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"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."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
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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