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."Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"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."
"Performance is a strong point."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"One of Juniper vSRX's most valuable features is its integration with safety applications. It keeps the software secure from developers without relying on third-party solutions."
"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."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"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."
"The reporting is lacking."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"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."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"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."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"he stability could be improved."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 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 OPNsense, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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