We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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."We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"It performs very well."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"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."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The tool is stable."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"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."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"Technical support could be faster."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". 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 Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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