We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and WatchGuard Firebox 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."I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"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."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The command feature is valuable."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"WatchGuard Firebox is easy to configure and has a nice user interface."
"The most valuables feature of WatchGuard Firebox are the VPNs, and web filtering where we can stop users from going to malicious sites."
"The Dimension control, the one-spot reporting and control, has been nice. It's been easy to go in and make sure people are doing what they're supposed to be doing and that only the right stuff is getting in."
"They've done a lot of work with their SD-WAN, which we do use, to have our old internet service with our new internet service. If anything goes down on a particular interface, I can have different rules applied. Most of my users don't even know when our primary internet goes down anymore... I don't have to be here to do anything to switch it to our backup internet or to switch it back."
"One of my favorite features is the Geolocation service, where you can actually block specific activity or IP addresses registered to certain countries. For example, I don't want any web traffic from Russia or North Korea. I may even lock down certain policies down to 'I only want U.S. IP addresses.' I find that very useful."
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"The most effective and helpful features of WatchGuard Firebox, especially when purchased with the full suite of applications, are its bundled applications and subscriptions for comprehensive protection against various threats."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The reporting can be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The drawbacks are just sometimes not having the technical information that we need in order to easily make connections with all of our Internet-based clients."
"Make WatchGuard Firebox capable of integrating with third-party vendors like FireMon, Splunk, Tenable, etc."
"I would like to see more tutorials on setting up the Firebox."
"There should be better integration and a way to configure multiple vendors into the same data center in order to offer more flexibility."
"Setup of this solution is complex, it's not plug and play."
"The next release should have better software and configuration systems that can also be used on Linux."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and OPNsense, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper vSRX vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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