We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The support system could be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"It could be more secure."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"The stability could be a lot better."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSv. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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