We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XGS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is extremely reliable."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"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."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"It's very easy to manage this solution."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It's much faster than the previous firewall, so you can do the work faster."
"The solution is scalable."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS for me are XGS IPS, SD-WAN, VPN setup, email protection, and integration with endpoint security."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The solution is very expensive."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"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 workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"The solution could have a bit more functionality."
"Having previously worked with the Astaro Security Gateway platform (now called Sophos UTM), I can attest that the configuration and dashboard for this older platform was easier to manage than that of both Sophos XG and XGS. If it were up to me, I would prefer to go back to the older SG dashboard."
"It would be good if we could do dual customization."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having a Network Access Control(NAC). This feature is a basic function in other firewalls and should be added, such as Palo Alto."
"They need intelligent reporting, not just your simple, standard reports."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having better integration with Active Directory."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". 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 XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XGS report.
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