We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XGS 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."Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"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 most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"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."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos is the VPN solution. I also value their threat management, IPS IDS features and login features with single sign-on."
"One of the main advantages of Sophos XGS is the processor. You don't have to wait a long time for when you are managing the firewall and the traffic is faster now."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"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 interface could be more user-friendly."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"Support could be improved."
"The SD-WAN feature isn't very good. It's there, but it doesn't work properly."
"I feel Sophos should add more telemetry data to its products...Right now, I think there are only less than a dozen vendors or OEMs supported by Sophos."
"Support is great, however, it can always be improved."
"In future releases, this solution could have more graphical elements on the dashboard to make it easier to understand."
"In my view, Sophos operates effectively in a reactive mode, focusing on static detection and forwarding traffic. However, Fortinet takes a more proactive approach, blocking both connection and route connections. While Sophos forwards any connection in both inbound and outbound traffic, I believe this is a positive aspect, especially in a country with various sizing considerations. This is my perspective, emphasizing the significance of Sophos XGS in software work."
"In the new release 19, there should be the implementation of a cloud service that you can use to set up the IPSec tunnels, and the SD-WAN from the WAN dashboard, and then you can push that configuration out to every firewall that you have."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sophos XGS report.
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