We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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 a stable solution."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"It's easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the NAT-ing, the IP addresses... We can direct the traffic where it needs to go. We can control the traffic."
"The set up of the VPN is pretty straightforward. Being able to build VPNs on the fly for certain users, if need be, is also valuable."
"HostWatch makes it so I can see, in real-time, activity in the event that there is something weird happening on the network. This simplifies my job."
"Simple to move settings between WatchGuard boxes."
"The reports are detailed."
"WatchGuard has a very easy VPN and branch office VPN setup, so we use those pretty extensively."
"It saves us time in the respect that we now have the template built for it so we can get in and get it done. We've had much less problem supporting Voice over IP technologies from different companies. Because our client base has grown over the years, we're probably saving 20 to 30 man-hours a month now that we've got this on a good stable level."
"The ports that I have assigned appear to be unattainable to outside 'mal-actors,' unless they have an address registered on the internet that this thing is expecting. That's a layer of security."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The UI could be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The only downside is that it is missing an API, that you can use to easily collect information from it."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"It's very hard to get information from their website, for exactly what I need to do. Sometimes I end up having to open a lot of support tickets... It's a navigational issue which makes it hard to find what I'm looking for and it's just so broad."
"We bought Firebox four or five years ago, and with the first version I had to reboot it every two or three months for no apparent reason. We upgraded last year to the M370 and it's been running, but it is rebooting from time to time. I don't know why."
"Make WatchGuard Firebox capable of integrating with third-party vendors like FireMon, Splunk, Tenable, etc."
"There is room for improvement on the education side, regarding what does what, rather than just throwing it at a person and assuming they know everything about it. A lot of times, you have to call WatchGuard support to get the solution that will work, rather than their just having it published so that you can fix the problem on your own."
"I would like to see the devices made more flexible by adding modules to increase the ports that we can use."
"It's sometimes not easy to understand and can require specialist assistance."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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