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."The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"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."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"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."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The pricing still needs some 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."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"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."
"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."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th 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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