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."The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"You can scale the solution."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The scalability is fine."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"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."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The technical support has been good."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"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."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"It could use more tutorials."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
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, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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