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 web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"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."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The product only has basic features."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"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 Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"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 VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
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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