We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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 initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The solution has good features."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The pricing could always be better."
"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."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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