We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is commended for its VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is highly regarded for its simplicity, user-friendly interface, and robust assistance.
Check Point could enhance its support system, cluster creation on AWS, data protection visibility, DLP feature, user interface, integration, cost reduction, documentation, and flexibility in deployment. Juniper SRX Series Firewall needs enhancements in capacity, pricing strategy, reporting and alerts, user interface, reliability, warranty, administration, documentation, and feature range.
Service and Support: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has received varying feedback regarding its customer service, with some customers appreciating the technical support provided, while others have encountered delays in response time. Juniper SRX Series Firewall generally garners positive reviews for its customer service, which is deemed helpful and knowledgeable. However, there have been occasional instances of slower response times reported.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's initial setup is considered straightforward, although it may require technical expertise. The deployment time can range from one day to a few days. Juniper SRX Series Firewall setup is generally straightforward and can be completed within a day for small-scale branch offices. However, there is a learning curve involved and users may need CLI experience.
Pricing: The cost of setting up Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is seen as high, whereas Juniper is viewed as reasonably priced and affordable. Users note that Check Point's pricing may differ based on the size of the organization and the country, while Juniper's pricing is considered average.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers significant cost savings and centralized management, resulting in a strong return on investment. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is highly dependable and has excellent uptime. It also provides enhanced security features, contributing to a positive ROI for its users.
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the preferred product over Juniper SRX Series Firewall. It is praised for its user-friendly setup and valuable features such as VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade. Users appreciate its advanced threat prevention, centralized management, scalability, and focus on cloud security.
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"It can expand easily."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The solution can scale well."
"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 security on offer is very 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."
"The number of options it gives for deployment or security is valuable. When it comes to security, it has a feature that is super awesome for zero-day-based attacks. Their IPS is also very capable. We tested other firewalls, and we understood that it is the best one in the market."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"The product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"The tool's most valuable features are the REST APIs that help to automate the deployment and maintenance process. It helps us to reduce time to 15-25 minutes compared to the manual process which used to take around two to three hours."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"If you compare the GUI with the Palo Alto and Forcepoint in the Cisco, they're very easy. Check Point, due to its design, is a little bit complex. They should make the GUI easy to use so that anyone can understand it easily, like Fortinet's GUI. Many companies end up using Fortinet because the GUI is very easy, and there's no need for training. They just deploy the box and do the configuration."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"What I would like for future updates would be faster updates to apply, and perhaps a greater presence in the local language for the regions of Latin America."
"Check Point Virtual Systems is a complete solution, but pricing can be better."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas 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. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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