We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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."It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"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."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"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."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"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."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". 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 Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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