We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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 solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"The most valuable feature I've found is VPN and web protection, particularly with navigation assessment. We use the application control feature to create rules controlling specific application navigation."
"We use SonicWall NSa for authenticating MAC (media access control) ID from the PC."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"The technical support is very good."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"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."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"It could be more secure."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Does not offer protection for IoT devices"
"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."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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