We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 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.
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"Technical support is perfect."
"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."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"Palo Alto Networks firewalls offer single-mode panel processing with live scanning."
"Comprehensive logging is essential for monitoring and analysis purposes. For remote users, the firewall can be configured as a VPN concentrator, with VPN policies defined within the firewall settings."
"The documentation is great."
"It offers application-based policy enforcement. Palo Alto Networks firewalls help us recognize protocol anomalies, contrasting with other vendors that may require policies based on port numbers. With Palo Alto Networks, the port number isn't a constraint because their devices handle protocol traffic at Layer 7, allowing for accurate identification of protocol usage and port numbers. They can identify which protocol actually uses which port."
"The cloud-based aspect helps significantly. It integrates seamlessly with other Palo products like Prisma Cloud, offers robust VPN protection, and it's all in one convenient package."
"The product's initial setup process was simple."
"The direct profiles is a valuable feature."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"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."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"The product only has basic features."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"With Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, I find that the support team takes a long time to resolve the issues that a user may face during the use of the product."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution."
"The web interface is slow."
"There are constant updates for the operating system. It is a nice thing also, but it has its own disadvantages. Continuous updates are there. The users face issues like, how often do I need to update that? Within a period of five months, I'm updating it two or three times. It gives them a feeling that they are not confident about their product and have to update it so frequently."
"Currently, they are not protected with any data security when they work from home or outside the network. They surf the Internet directly and should implement a proxy or firewall to monitor the data between the endpoint and the internet."
"The technical support offered by Palo Alto is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series should improve its price. It should also include a feature similar to Sophos' Security Heartbeat."
"There is room for improvement in streamlining this process for smoother transitions."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". 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 Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series report.
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