We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The performance is good."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"Cisco IOS Security has many good features, but compared to other solutions, it has a more user-friendly interface with steps to apply and manage rules. Another good part of the solution is that it's more straightforward."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"The technical is excellent."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"The scalability is fine."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"I would love it if it has a link-by-link feature, integration with Unified Threat Management (UTM), and load balancers. They haven't got any link-by-link feature right now, which can be a very attractive option. This link-by-link feature can also be made available for Cisco's UTM firewalls. The link-by-link feature is available in some of the other firewalls. Currently, integration with UTM is missing. Cisco IOS Security also doesn't have the load balancers and a few things that need to be done to get a good UTM firewall. Normally, other firewalls have UTM. As a next-generation firewall, it's good, but as a UTM, it has to do some work."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"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."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"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."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Netgate pfSense, 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. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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