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 enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The solution is stable."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"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."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"It's easy to use."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"It is easy to manage."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"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 support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The product only has basic features."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"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."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The solution is not scalable."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 87 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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