We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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."Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"The technical support is very good."
"One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"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."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"We also use the Sophos Firewall for web configuration, which we don't have in SonicWall. Only Sophos has those options. If SonicWall included that feature, that would be a benefit for us."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
"It's very hard to manage this box. You really need a lot of skills to operate the SonicWall. There is training and the like, but it's just hard to manage. Even if you have the knowledge, there are too many options. The menus are not very clear, where you should find the information."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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