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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"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 EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The tool is stable."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"It is very easy to use."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It could be more secure."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
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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