We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"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."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"It's easily scalable."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The scalability is fine."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"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."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"People are less aware of Palo Alto."
"There are various reports that come with the box or with the VMware, but you can only run them daily."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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