We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and WatchGuard Firebox 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 license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The solution has good features."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The technical support has been good."
"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 features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable features are the VPN and web blocker security."
"As a whole, it has a very low requirement for ongoing interaction. It's very self-sufficient. If properly patched, it has very high reliability. The total cost of ownership once deployed is very low."
"The throughput is great. It's perfect. We have no issues whatsoever. The management features are very powerful..."
"It's pretty simple to use. It's pretty simple to understand, and there's plenty of documentation. It does a pretty good job of what it is meant to do."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, especially the real-time bandwidth usage report. Also, its integration with WiFi access points is nice."
"The policy monitoring and allowing different traffic flows are the most useful features for us; regulating which traffic comes in and out."
"I like intrusion detection the most."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The biggest downside of Juniper vSRX is its pricing, which may be too high for smaller organizations. While it's a decent solution, the cost may limit its accessibility to smaller customers."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"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."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"he stability could be improved."
"The usability could be better, but it is definitely manageable. If we have to go to a backup internet connection, that could be a little bit easier."
"Cloud-based central administration of all devices from one point would be nice"
"I haven’t dug deeply into the reporting features yet or if they are working well. However, I have generated several reports and there was too much unnecessary information, in comparison with the reporting features in the Sophos firewall. Sophos' reporting is more readable and easier to configure."
"It would be wonderful if the WatchGuard team develops nice products for threat intelligence."
"One area for improvement could be making the interface even more user-friendly."
"The reporting is a little on the weak side. I would like to see a better reporting set and easier drill-down options."
"The solution can improve by adding a feature to tag a MAC address of a computer system in the policy and more IP configuration settings."
"The documentation for the System Manager/Dimension configuration, could be a little bit clearer... The use case where you have multiple sites with multiple firewalls, and one site that has the System Manager server and the Dimension server, wasn't really well defined. It took me a little bit of digging to get that to actually work."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and OPNsense, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper vSRX vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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