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."Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"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."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"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."
"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."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"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."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"Its scalability is not that great."
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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