We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The interface is very good."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The filtering was very good."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"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."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"The interface needs improvement."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas 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.
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