We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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 security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The solution has good features."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The technical support has been good."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The reports are very basic."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"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."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX 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 Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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