We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"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."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"You can scale the solution."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"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."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"The reporting is lacking."
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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