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 feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The scalability is fine."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"The solution can scale."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"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."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"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."
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 Stormshield Network Security. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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