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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"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It can expand easily."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"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 provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The filtering was very good."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The technical support is quite good."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The interface needs improvement."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The product only has basic features."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
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 18th 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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