We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"It's easy to use."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"It's very easy to use."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"There are a lot of features that we like within the solution. The resources or performance of the firewall is very good. However, the real selling point is the fact that the solution offers so many features, it gives our clients a lot of extras that they can work with. There's a lot on offer."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The scalability is fine."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"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."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"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."
"It needs more available central management."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"It would be better if AWS instances were available. If I want to upgrade from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available rather than having a big instance and paying a lot of money for that. The issue is that we had deployed in AWS Cloud, and we were using a very small instance. Recently we wanted to move in-house and deploy it on the big instance because it was struggling with the RAM. If we use T2.small, we cannot upgrade it to the T2.medium. It has predefined instances in the marketplace with a lot of cost differences. If I can increase the RAM, I have to choose the T3.large instance. If I'm paying $270 for the small instance, I have to pay more than double the cost for T3.large. It is about $850, and this is not good. So, it would be better if it was cheaper. I think both AWS and Fortinet should think about that. They should provide it on lower instances as well. If I want to upgrade it from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available, but it's a problem."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"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."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"It could be more secure."
"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."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, 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 Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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