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 product offers very good security."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"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's stability is very good."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"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."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The interface needs improvement."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"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."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
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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