We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The technical support is great."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"It's very easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ability to block and make white and black lists. Additionally, the filtering of user access to websites is useful."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"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."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"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 IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"The pricing model makes this product far more expensive than similar solutions."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the monitoring function, it could be more accurate, easy to use, and understandable."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is better troubleshooting and reporting."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"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 pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Does not offer protection for IoT devices"
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, 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 Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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