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."It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"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."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The product offers very good security."
"The GUI is good."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"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."
"Technical support is perfect."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"It is very easy to use."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"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."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The product only has basic features."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"It could be more secure."
"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."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
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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