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."The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The technical support is great."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"Technical support is excellent."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"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."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The setup process should be improved."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"It could be more secure."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"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."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"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 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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