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."It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The solution is scalable."
"Sophos XGS's best features are its VPN and ATPR1 cert protection."
"Compared to other products, Sophos XGS is a user-friendly solution."
"It's very easy to manage this solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The Sophos XGS product is highly versatile and well-suited for various companies, including small, medium, and large enterprises. Its effectiveness lies in its inspection firewall capabilities, making it a commonly chosen option in our country due to its reasonable pricing. Sophos Firewall's support for VPN encryption and thorough inspection makes it a suitable choice for many companies, and I recommend it accordingly. At the moment, I can't propose any new features. The primary concern is the traffic stability, which needs improvement. Although the traffic stability is generally good, it has been noted that it can impact RAM and CPU, affecting workflow and inspection."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is the application control."
"The threat intelligence capabilities of the tool are good."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"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."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"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."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"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/"
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"Support is great, however, it can always be improved."
"The SD-WAN feature isn't very good. It's there, but it doesn't work properly."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"What could be improved in Sophos XGS is its connectivity with Azure AD. It's best if it could work directly without using any servers locally, or in the data center, and this functionality should be made available in this product."
"Sophos XGS's response to zero-day attacks could be improved."
"They need intelligent reporting, not just your simple, standard reports."
"Having previously worked with the Astaro Security Gateway platform (now called Sophos UTM), I can attest that the configuration and dashboard for this older platform was easier to manage than that of both Sophos XG and XGS. If it were up to me, I would prefer to go back to the older SG dashboard."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th 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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