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 easy to configure."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The product offers very good security."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"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."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"Technical support is excellent."
"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."
"It is very easy to use."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"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."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"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."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
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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