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.
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It performs very well."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"This is a very stable solution."
"We can configure rules with the user, traffic, etc., making it a very versatile solution for our network."
"The user authentication rules are very useful."
"It's a complete firewall solution that has everything."
"The VPN features and its capabilities are great."
"The solution is easy to set up and configure."
"Dashboard is easy to use and the reporting offers a lot of detail."
"There are many valuable features."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It could be more secure."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"Sophos XG could improve the connectivity with Microsoft 365 or Azure Active Directory(AD). It doesn't work directly as other solutions do, such as Fortinet FortiGate. The client needs a separate AD server which is a problem."
"In the product, the area revolving around SD-WAN has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Sophos XG could improve by coming out with more innovative feature developments."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"It's easy to use, but it's hard to configure exact settings. They need to make it easier to access advanced features."
"They should include fiber ports on smaller product models and the tools should be improved for scalability."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
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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