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."UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"The blocking needs to 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."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"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."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
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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