We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW 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."Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"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."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The UI could be improved."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The documentation needs to be improved. When they retire old models, they also retire the documentation. However, if you are still using an older model, you still need access to that documentation. And yet, they go ahead and removed it. It's gone. You are therefore stuck with a device with no documentation and technical support that isn't very helpful as they also remove support assistance as well."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution doesn't seem to be very mature. Our networking team says they are experiencing a lot of issues in the firewalls and some routers."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"One issue is integration. Huawei can't detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC). I can get a lot of information about security, but can't automatically input the EP, domain URL, and file hashes I get from Hackersworld into my blocklist."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"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."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"It could be more secure."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW, 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 Huawei NGFW vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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