We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."The solution is stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The performance is good."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"The fact that is it has a UTM, a Unified Threat Management feature is the most valuable aspect for us. It's an all in one product. It's like our one-stop-shop to the internet."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"I like that the firewall gives me a lot of control in terms of outgoing and inbound traffic, and it scores better in deep packet inspections when compared with the Azure Firewall."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"In terms of what needs improvements, the troubleshooting could use improvement. When we work with other products like Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Check Point, we see a big difference in the troubleshooting. It's not easy to find a report."
"The technical support is good. However, during the holidays they can get a little slow to respond."
"The solution's firmware updates have significant bugs and issues."
"Some features I have found to be hidden and cannot be accessed through the graphical user interface, you can only access them through the command-line interface(CLI). All the features should be accessible through the graphical user interface."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing models. With the way they are structured, everything is very disparate and sold separately, and, depending on the solution, it can get quite pricey."
"The pricing model makes this product far more expensive than similar solutions."
"There is no flexibility."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, 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 Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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