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 virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"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 UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The solution is very robust."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The technical support is quite good."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
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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