We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"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."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 87 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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