We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The solution has good features."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"The technical support has been good."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"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."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"he stability could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"It could use more tutorials."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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