We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It is a safe product."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"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."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The solution is stable."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Application management can be improved."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"The support could be better."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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