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."Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The solution can scale well."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The product is worth the investment."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Backup can be improved."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"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."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The product only has basic features."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
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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