We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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."Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"It's easily scalable."
"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."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"You can scale the solution."
"The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN."
"I like that SonicWall NSa is a stable product. It's also a scalable product."
"It has excellent stability."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"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."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"I would like to see better integration."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"The reporting and monitoring are a bit complex and should be easier in SonicWall NSa because other firewalls I have experienced have been more simple, such as Palo Alto. We are able to receive a clear view of our network. As a general user with little experience, it would be difficult for them to handle."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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