We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The performance is good."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"With the main firewall routing there, we can do connectivity point-to-point. On the low bandwidth we can connect in all the branches with my corporate office."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"Getting support can be slow."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"We encounter issues while generating new reports."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"In terms of what needs to be improved, I would say better load balancing and data filtering."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSv. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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