We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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 improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"The technical support is very good."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The reporting is lacking."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"It could be more secure."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"Do not even consider NetExtender - probably one of the most horrific, nightmare grade Java-based VPN clients. We have but all given up trying to make it work reliably."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"Vendor support needs improvement. The frequency of time and support should be increased."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"I would like to see better integration."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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