We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 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."The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"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."
"The scalability is fine."
"The direct profiles is a valuable feature."
"It has its own logging system. You can go to monitoring and check the logs to see if a connection is getting blocked. You can use multiple types of logs to check if a file or a port is getting blocked or if there are any TCP resets from the source or destination. It's easy to troubleshoot with the monitoring and logging it provides."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The documentation is great."
"I like the tool's security and web filtering features."
"The solution provides good customer support."
"The cloud-based aspect helps significantly. It integrates seamlessly with other Palo products like Prisma Cloud, offers robust VPN protection, and it's all in one convenient package."
"The solution is robust."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The technical support offered by Palo Alto is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Compared to other vendors, the solution's community should be strong enough to solve the problems engineers face."
"The interface is complex."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is complicated to configure compared to one of its competitors."
"The product must provide multiple threat detection features."
"Currently, they are not protected with any data security when they work from home or outside the network. They surf the Internet directly and should implement a proxy or firewall to monitor the data between the endpoint and the internet."
"Utilizing these features as a unified solution can require additional setup, particularly when incorporating Panorama for centralized management, which may involve extra costs."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive. We would like to see additional threat hunting features."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". 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 Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series report.
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