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 is easy to use and performs very well."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"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 management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"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."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The user interface is good."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"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."
"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."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"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."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
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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