We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Netgate pfSense 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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The command feature is valuable."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The solution has good features."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"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."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"I'm the expert when it comes to Linux systems, however, with the pfSense, due to the web interface, the rest of the staff can actually make changes to it as required without me worrying about whether they've opened up ports incorrectly or not. The ease of use for non-expert staff is very good."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"I had some outages in the network and we provide services for our company. We sell mobile credits. The terminal gets access to our own server inside the network and if one internet fails, then the other one is still up and we have a back-up link on the devices."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"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."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Application management can be improved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"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."
"The reporting can be improved."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"The security feature must be improved."
"he stability could be improved."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"It's just not listed as FIPS compliant for where we're at now in government, which is an issue."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"I'd like to find something in pfSense that is more specific to URL filtering. We have customers who would like to filter their web traffic. They would like to be able to say to their employees, "You can surf the web, but you cannot get access to Facebook or other social media," or "You can surf the web, but you're not allowed to gamble or watch porn on the web." My technicians say that doing this kind of stuff with pfSense nowadays is not easy. They can implement some filters using IP addresses but not by using the names of the domains and categories. So, we are not able to exclude some categories from the allowed traffic, such as porn, gambling, etc. To do that, we have to use another product and another web filter that uses DNS. I know that there are some third-party products that could work with pfSense, but I'd like the native pfSense solution to do that."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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