We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall vs Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Each of them have a good set of features, and the solution you choose will ultimately be dependent on your company’s specific preferences and requirements.
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The traffic inspection and the Firepower engine are the most valuable features. It gives you full details, application details, traffic monitoring, and the threats. It gives you all the containers the user is using, especially at the application level. The solution also provides application visibility and control."
"It provides security for our company and users."
"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."
"The most valuable features are the IPsec VPN and web filtering."
"The features I have found most valuable are the ASA firewalls. I like to have features like most integrated systems in ACI."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"The product offers good scalability."
"We use the solution for deep packet inspection, Internet Edge functionality, IDS, and IDP."
"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'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"It's easily scalable."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"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."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"In NGFW, Cisco should be aligned with the new technology and inspection intelligence because Cisco is far behind in this pipeline."
"It doesn't have a proper GUI to do troubleshooting, so most people have to rely on the command line."
"The stability is not the best."
"FMC could be improved because management with FMC is quite difficult compared to using Firepower web-based management."
"FirePOWER does a good job when it comes to providing us with visibility into threats, but I would like to see a more proactive stance to it."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The product only has basic features."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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