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.
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"You can scale the solution."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The solution was able to be integrated well with exciting hardware and software and in multiple business sectors."
"The simplicity and timely updates."
"It is stable, flexible, and easy to use. It has got a web management portal that can be accessed from anywhere."
"The solution is a next generation firewall and we have gotten good customer feedback."
"I like their firewall and the intrusion detection feature"
"The SD-WAN feature stands out as the most valuable aspect."
"What we found valuable is the way they deal with emails, as well as the way the bandwidth usage is shown."
"The tool's most valuable feature is threat protection and DLP features. So far, basic DLP features like content protection and blocking. Furthermore, for remote users, features such as back filtering and application control are available, allowing for command and control from our side. It is very easy to understand policy applications."
"The user interface could be improved."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"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."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
"Scalability it is a bit limited. We did a sizing exercise before the purchase. But that was just to fit our current needs. There was no room for having an option to upgrade the device. The only option that we have if we are grow in the near future, is to go for another model with higher specs, which is actually more expensive. In other words it doesn't have that modularity ."
"Sophos needs improvements made to the console, such as host entry or defining rules directly from it."
"Sophos XG could improve by coming out with more innovative feature developments."
"Their updates can be faster and more regular."
"The reaction time of the GUI is terrible when compared to other manufacturers."
"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 interface of Sophos XG could be improved. I would prefer the Sophos XG to have an interface for the technician who is setting it up similar to the Sophos SG. I felt the Sophos SG user interface was superior. however, in terms of the functionality of the product, Sophos XG is in many ways more powerful than the Sophos SG. I have no complaints about the quality of the product or the end result. For someone who has used both, I preferred the old interface to the new one."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th 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 Juniper vSRX, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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