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 application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The performance is good."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"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."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
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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