We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"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."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The most valuable features we found are the SD-WAN, FortiGate SD-WAN, and the standard UTM protection, among others."
"The solution’s interface is pretty user-friendly."
"The FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall is always updating. For example, if there is a big attack, they fix it in their firmware. They release new firmware with the necessary patches to address the vulnerabilities."
"The solution's application control is very powerful."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall has a simple configuration."
"There are multiple features I have found to be valuable, such as encryption and integrated security features."
"The IPS and the application control feature are the most valuable."
"The product is easy to configure."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"The scalability is fine."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"There have been several vulnerabilities in the firewall. It is hackable, some of the images are hackable."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"The product keeps hanging."
"One area for improvement is the IPS engine."
"Its technical support could be better."
"Technical support is not helpful."
"The product's data guard feature should support a USB port when the internet connection is unavailable."
"There should be better customization in the IPS."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"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."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The product only has basic features."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate 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 FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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