We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"The technical support is quite good."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"You can scale the solution."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The tool is stable."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"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."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."