In summary, while Juniper vSRX is praised for its security features, performance, and integration capabilities, users have highlighted areas for improvement such as usability and interface issues. On the other hand, CloudGuard Network Security is appreciated for its firewall capabilities, user-friendly interface, and excellent customer support, but users have suggested enhancements in integration, setup process, and advanced threat intelligence features. Overall, both products offer valuable network security solutions with their unique strengths and weaknesses.
The summary above is based on 82 interviews we conducted recently with Juniper vSRX and CloudGuard Network Security users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The solution is scalable."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The solution is stable."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-prem. It's very important because when I have unified security, I have better control of the situation. If there's an attack or something like that, we can react faster. It's easier for everyone in the organization to work with the Infinity platform."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The technical support has been good."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The user interface could be improved."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security needs to improve the management of the actual firewalls. Improvement is also needed for the consolidated UI of different security aspects."
"The main issue that I have noticed is that for deployment, it still requires a dedicated management server, and the gateway is completely different. That sometimes can cause issues."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"People don't know about the tool's features. There's a lack of skill. Users require more knowledge on how to integrate it into the cloud environment and orchestrate routing. So, it's not necessarily a CloudGuard Network Security or Check Point issue but more about integration, knowledge, and understanding."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"The security feature must be improved."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"It could use more tutorials."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"The reporting can be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Azure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and OPNsense. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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