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.
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"It can expand easily."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"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."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"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 performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"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."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"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."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure 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, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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