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."It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"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."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"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."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"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."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"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 CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"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."
"It could be more secure."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less time."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
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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