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 payment function for applications is good."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"The technical support is quite good."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"Easy to set up firewall product, that's also easy to manage and scale."
"XGS' most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"It is very stable. I have not heard of any issue where clients would have to replace hardware. It's been really stable for a long while."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The centralized security is very good."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is its ease of use."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The user interface could be improved."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"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."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"It would be nice to have features like the network access control (NAC) that Cisco has for Identity Services Engine. In the next release, I would also like to see an increase in the performance of the processing units."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"When it comes to different interfaces there is some speed issue that can be improved in Sophos XGS."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Reporting could be improved. The structure could be better because most of the reports aren't detailed."
"In my view, Sophos operates effectively in a reactive mode, focusing on static detection and forwarding traffic. However, Fortinet takes a more proactive approach, blocking both connection and route connections. While Sophos forwards any connection in both inbound and outbound traffic, I believe this is a positive aspect, especially in a country with various sizing considerations. This is my perspective, emphasizing the significance of Sophos XGS in software work."
"It would be good if we could do dual customization."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS 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 XGS writes "Highly stable, scalable, and priced well". 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 Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XGS report.
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