We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-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."I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"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."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"You can scale the solution."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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