We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is praised for its simplicity, intuitive interface, and outstanding assistance. It provides site-to-site VPN capabilities and a straightforward configuration rollback feature. Sophos XG excels in functionality, improved graphical interface, and all-inclusive defense against threats. It also offers effortless setup and control management, transparent reporting, and seamless integration with other Sophos products.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could benefit from enhancements in capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. Sophos XG product requires improvements in antivirus, graphical interface, performance, logging, technical support, initial setup, configuration after upgrades, and additional areas.
Service and Support: Customers generally praise the customer service of Juniper SRX Series Firewall for being helpful, responsive, and knowledgeable. However, there have been occasional instances of slower response times and the need to repeat procedures. The customer reviews for Sophos XG's customer service are mixed. Some customers appreciate the support they receive, while others express dissatisfaction with unhelpful and unresponsive support, bad response times, and difficulties due to language barriers with outsourced support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is generally simple and uncomplicated. Sophos XG's setup is also considered simple and straightforward, however, it can pose difficulties for certain users. Juniper's setup might necessitate proficiency in CLI, whereas Sophos' setup relies on the user's familiarity and technical expertise.
Pricing: The setup cost for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonably priced and affordable for large-scale businesses, although opinions on affordability differ. The pricing for Sophos XG is adaptable and depends on the desired functionality, generally offering reasonable and competitive rates.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall delivers advanced security features and reliability, with a favorable return on investment. Sophos XG offers efficient technical support, alleviating management challenges and promoting enhanced security practices, ultimately leading to a substantial ROI within three years.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred choice when compared to the Sophos XG. Users find the initial setup of Juniper SRX Series Firewall to be straightforward and easy, with a simple plug-and-play process. They also appreciate the user-friendly interface, stability, and reliability of Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution's most valuable feature stems from its ability to protect our organization's web servers."
"We recommend Sophos XG as a priority as it is much more reliable and has efficient technical assistance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is flexibility."
"SD-WAN features should be added."
"Web filtering is easy enough to deploy, manage, or make exceptions to."
"Sophos XG deployment is easy and rapid."
"IPS works smoothly."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"They should expand their DDoS feature. It's basic. They need to enhance it."
"It would be better if they made their own hardware like Palo Alto and Fortinet. They use their own ASICs and claim it is more secure."
"The current bandwidth consumption is no longer shown in the XG and XGS."
"When it comes to improvements that the vendor can make, we see that the cloud integration for managing all the firewalls is essentially a replacement of the on-prem version we had and is not sufficiently mature."
"This solution could be improved with more effective bandwidth. I found that when I enable DDoS detection for our clients, bandwidth is reduced. If DDoS detection is disabled, the bandwidth will be high, but it isn't secure. We recommend that customers enable DDoS detection, but if they need high bandwidth, we recommend Palo Alto and FortiGate instead of Sophos."
"Sophos XG should improve on the GDPR features involving data protection and encryption. Security regarding data protection is important."
"The user interface could be improved and more bandwidth management would be helpful."
"Data traffic analysis could be better. I think Fortinet products like FortiAnalyzer are very effective in analyzing data traffic. I think it's better than Sophos. It could also be more stable."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper vSRX, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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