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."It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"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."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"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 initial setup is pretty simple."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"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."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"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 ease of use could be improved."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall, 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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