We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."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."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The VPN is great."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"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."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas 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. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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