We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The solution is stable."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The solution has good features."
"The technical support has been good."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"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."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The security feature must be improved."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"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."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 30 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and OPNsense, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Sophos UTM report.
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