We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"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."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The support system could be improved."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"An additional feature that I would like to see is reporting that includes metrics to give me more information about the number of viruses that it has actually detected and interrupted."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"It would be good if Analyzer would be part of the stock license, so even if a layperson is getting the device, he or she doesn't forgets about ordering the Analyzer because it's already there."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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