We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"Great security and connectivity."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"The solution can autoscale."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"One of Juniper vSRX's most valuable features is its integration with safety applications. It keeps the software secure from developers without relying on third-party solutions."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The command feature is valuable."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"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 support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"The security feature must be improved."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Azure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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