We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The tool's most valuable feature is IPS. In my experience, I haven't encountered any issues with integration. It easily integrates with the FortiGate solution. However, verifying through documentation and assessing their support is necessary."
"The product is easy to configure."
"Overall, I am satisfied with the product."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution's application control is very powerful."
"The GUI configuration is its most valuable feature"
"The scalability is very good."
"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 IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The inability to change passwords when using FortiGate firewall and relying on a local FortiGate database for account creation can be problematic, particularly in non-Active Directory setups."
"Vulnerabilities owing to viruses in the OS need to be reduced in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall from an improvement perspective."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"Technical support is not helpful."
"The management consoles can be improved."
"There is an area for improvement in vulnerability management."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"FortiGate NGFW can improve technical support. The engineer who answers the technical support call, email, or phone call, whatever the medium may be. The response time is very bad."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas 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. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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