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.
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Performance is a strong point."
"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 like the routing and firewall features."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The reporting is lacking."
"Sometimes there is a glitch between the network connection. Last time, something happened on our IP phone, the SonicWall team did some updates to fix the issue. However, glitches happen very rarely. I did not experience any other types of problems."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 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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