We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The product offers very good security."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"You can scale the solution."
"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."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"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 valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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