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.
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The user interface is good."
"This solution is very user-friendly and even a non-professional can configure the policies."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"The solution comes with a common bundle which comprises all the feature."
"I have found the solution easy to use and fully integrated."
"IPS and advanced threat protection (ATP) are the most valuable features. I am able to segment my network traffic and block incoming connections. It is also easy to use."
"It is very easy to configure and straightforward. The firewall rules are straightforward. It works great out of the box. It has been working as advertised, and I haven't had any issues with it."
"The multifactor authentication is helpful because whenever the user wants to connect to the firewall, they have to use the authenticator before they can access it."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"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 interface could be more user-friendly."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The support engineers of the product are not very tech-savvy, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Some of the firewall rules are complicated for us to understand, they should be simplified."
"We had a difficult time assigning IP addresses to specific MAC addresses."
"It's easy to use, but it's hard to configure exact settings. They need to make it easier to access advanced features."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the policy and simplify the policy-making, as the complexity of it makes it really tough."
"The initial setup, specifically when activating the license, is a nightmare and is quite difficult."
"The reaction time of the GUI is terrible when compared to other manufacturers."
"The solution could improve by having better security."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th 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 Sophos UTM, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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