We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The solution can scale well."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"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 CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"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 initial setup was easy."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"It's easy to use."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"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."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"It could be more secure."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
