We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 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 simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The technical support is quite good."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"The cloud-based aspect helps significantly. It integrates seamlessly with other Palo products like Prisma Cloud, offers robust VPN protection, and it's all in one convenient package."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"It offers application-based policy enforcement. Palo Alto Networks firewalls help us recognize protocol anomalies, contrasting with other vendors that may require policies based on port numbers. With Palo Alto Networks, the port number isn't a constraint because their devices handle protocol traffic at Layer 7, allowing for accurate identification of protocol usage and port numbers. They can identify which protocol actually uses which port."
"A valuable feature that we can consider is the deployment time, which is significantly reduced. It is almost 90% faster compared to other solutions."
"The most effective features for threat prevention in the PA-Series are its integration with Cortex and the use of machine learning AI for advanced threat detection."
"The solution is used for security and IoT security."
"Palo Alto Networks firewalls offer single-mode panel processing with live scanning."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"Compared to other vendors, the solution's community should be strong enough to solve the problems engineers face."
"As we migrate fully into the cloud, additional features like capacity upgrading and improvements to hardware resources will be necessary, especially since our equipment consists of older-generation switches and routers."
"Utilizing these features as a unified solution can require additional setup, particularly when incorporating Panorama for centralized management, which may involve extra costs."
"The web interface is slow."
"In future releases, maybe Palo Alto can enhance and enlarge their portfolio with SIEM solutions. They already have an endpoint protection solution, SOAR solution, that's fine. But when it comes to standalone IDS/IPS solution or email security solution, for example, we don't have any product in that category for Palo Alto."
"The UI definitely needs work. In my opinion, the UI could be simpler and more user-friendly for the average user."
"The product's high prices are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is complicated to configure compared to one of its competitors."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". 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, whereas Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series report.
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