We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX finishes slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks WildFire in this comparison. Juniper SRX provides robust enterprise network protection and connectivity and comprehensive performance, is stable, and scales easily. Palo Alto Network WildFire can be challenging for some users to learn. The overall configuration is a bit complex to use.
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"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."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"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."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The price could be better."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Check Point SandBlast Network and Zscaler Internet Access.
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