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 pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The support system could be improved."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"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 could be more secure."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"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."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"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."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"Technical support could be faster."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
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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