We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"The user interface is 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."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"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 most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The command feature is valuable."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"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."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"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."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"The security feature must be improved."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. 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 Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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