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 is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"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."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"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."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, SonicWall NSa and Sophos XG. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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