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."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It's easily scalable."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"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 stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"The product only has basic features."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
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 Stormshield Network Security. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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