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."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The tool is stable."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"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."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"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."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"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."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"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."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
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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