We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"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 CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The solution can autoscale."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"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 most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"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."
"The command feature is valuable."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Application management can be improved."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"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."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Azure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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