We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The technical support has been good."
"The hardware is stable."
"One of the standout features of Sophos XG is its proprietary VPN technology known as RID (Remote Internet Device). This unique technology provides efficient branch connectivity without the need to invest in additional firewalls for each branch. By utilizing an affordable device called RED, users can effectively control and establish connections in a cost-effective manner. Additionally, the solution is feature-rich."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The user interface is very good. It's already quite simple and easy to use."
"The solution has very good security features, is easy to use for administrators and users, and has informative reports."
"I like the web filter, application filter, and VBA."
"This is a very stable solution."
"We've had good experiences with technical support."
"The most valuable feature, according to the setup we have at our work place here, is the flexibility of the system or the firmware that's running the appliance. It's so flexible, performing multiple rules with different configurations. According to the set up here, we need to implement several firewalls with different access levels, because we have a variety of users. For this requirement, it's very flexible and very easy to use."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Its price could be better."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"It could use more tutorials."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"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."
"We had a difficult time assigning IP addresses to specific MAC addresses."
"The solution should have the ability to be up to date with the most recent threats."
"The user interface could be improved and more bandwidth management would be helpful."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
"We are having challenges when using Zoom with Sophos XG deployed."
"The reports could improve, they do not seem complete and more information could be added."
"Sophos XG could improve the connectivity with Microsoft 365 or Azure Active Directory(AD). It doesn't work directly as other solutions do, such as Fortinet FortiGate. The client needs a separate AD server which is a problem."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Sophos XG report.
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