We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The security on offer is very good."
"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."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The command feature is valuable."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"Application control, IPS, and sandboxing towards the cloud are the most valuable features. It is a very user-friendly product with a very easy-to-use interface."
"I love the Policy Optimizer feature. I am also completely happy with its stability."
"I like the firewall's vulnerability management features, which give you reminders to update your system and update your OS."
"Innovative, advanced threat protection is the most valuable feature."
"The packet level inspection is the most valuable feature. The traffic restriction features allow us to restrict the sub-features of any platform."
"This is arguably the best security protection that you can buy."
"Palo Alto NGFW’s unified platform has helped our customers eliminate security holes. With a unified platform, customers can deploy the NG Firewall both in the data center edge, inside the data center, and in the product/public cloud environments. They have the same user interfaces and platform, so they can be maintained by a single unified platform called Panorama. Customers can use Palo Alto Network NG Firewalls in all the places where they need to protect their environments. This helps to decrease security holes."
"The most valuable features are application inspection and sandboxing. Application inspection decides where traffic is transmitted. If I have a perimeter report for a particular service, then other services or malicious services cannot use an open port. In this way, application inspection is doing a fantastic job. We also have a very good sandbox with almost no rate limit. It will inspect any file that comes in and goes out in a dedicated patch to identify malware. Therefore, these two things help me to protect our organization from any bad actors."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The scalability compared to other products is not good. You need to change the box whenever you want your number of connection sessions to increase."
"Its stability can be better. Their technical response from the support side can also be better."
"From a documentation standpoint, there is room for improvement. Even Palo Alto says that their documentation is terrible."
"The VPN has room for improvement."
"PA-220 Next-Generation Firewall would be perfect if it has spam filtering."
"I would like to see better third-party orchestration so that it is easier for the team to work with different products."
"There is room for improvement in the area of customer service."
"Over the past one or two years, Palo Alto Networks has added a lot of features into the NG Firewall products. I think this is becoming more complicated for our customers. Therefore, we could use some best practices, best practice tools, and implementation guides for some of the complicated features."
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Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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