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 most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"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."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It's easily scalable."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"The VM-Series scalability is fast and easy to implement, improving our security posture as our Azure network grows."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"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 would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"The tool is very costly."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 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 SonicWall NSa, 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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