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."This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"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."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The technical support is quite good."
"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."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The reporting is lacking."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"It could be more secure."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"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"
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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