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."Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"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."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The user interface is good."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"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."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The UI could be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"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 centralized management platform could be improved."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"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."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
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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