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."A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The performance is good."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"Performance is a strong point."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"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."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"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."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"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."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"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."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
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, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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