We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The technical support is quite good."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"It is a stable solution."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"The IPS system is the best in the field."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The scalability could be better."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"Its networking features could be better."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"The product should get frequent updates allowing us to add new signatures."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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