We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is praised for its simplicity, intuitive interface, and outstanding assistance. It provides site-to-site VPN capabilities and a straightforward configuration rollback feature. Sophos XG excels in functionality, improved graphical interface, and all-inclusive defense against threats. It also offers effortless setup and control management, transparent reporting, and seamless integration with other Sophos products.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could benefit from enhancements in capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. Sophos XG product requires improvements in antivirus, graphical interface, performance, logging, technical support, initial setup, configuration after upgrades, and additional areas.
Service and Support: Customers generally praise the customer service of Juniper SRX Series Firewall for being helpful, responsive, and knowledgeable. However, there have been occasional instances of slower response times and the need to repeat procedures. The customer reviews for Sophos XG's customer service are mixed. Some customers appreciate the support they receive, while others express dissatisfaction with unhelpful and unresponsive support, bad response times, and difficulties due to language barriers with outsourced support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is generally simple and uncomplicated. Sophos XG's setup is also considered simple and straightforward, however, it can pose difficulties for certain users. Juniper's setup might necessitate proficiency in CLI, whereas Sophos' setup relies on the user's familiarity and technical expertise.
Pricing: The setup cost for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonably priced and affordable for large-scale businesses, although opinions on affordability differ. The pricing for Sophos XG is adaptable and depends on the desired functionality, generally offering reasonable and competitive rates.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall delivers advanced security features and reliability, with a favorable return on investment. Sophos XG offers efficient technical support, alleviating management challenges and promoting enhanced security practices, ultimately leading to a substantial ROI within three years.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred choice when compared to the Sophos XG. Users find the initial setup of Juniper SRX Series Firewall to be straightforward and easy, with a simple plug-and-play process. They also appreciate the user-friendly interface, stability, and reliability of Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"It is a safe product."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It's easily scalable."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"It is easy to implement."
"Sophos is a stable solution, and we haven't had any bugs or limitations."
"It gives me a very good, stable connection in all tunnels."
"The performance of Sophos XG is generally good and it is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the flexibility of it, it's pretty versatile."
"The simplicity of the setup is the most valuable feature."
"I have found configuring the ports to be easier in Sophos XG compared to the other devices."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"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."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"There could be some room for improvement in its pricing since my clients usually feel like the product is on the expensive side."
"I do prefer when updates come out a bit quicker."
"The reporting could be improved in this solution by adding more details."
"It's easy to use, but it's hard to configure exact settings. They need to make it easier to access advanced features."
"When upgrading the firewalls, the process could be easier."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
"I would like to see in future releases a tool to scan for malicious packets and give the location of where they are coming from."
"It could offer a DNS Filter for blocking botnet networks."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper vSRX, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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