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."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"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."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"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."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"It is a stable solution."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Application management can be improved."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The product only has basic features."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"The product should get frequent updates allowing us to add new signatures."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 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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