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."The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"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."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"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'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"The reports are very basic."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"It could be more secure."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"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."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
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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