We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is stable."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The user interface is good."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks WildFire are the good URL and file analysis that uses artificial intelligence. It has different interfaces, such as rest, SMTP protocol, and HTTPS. The Security incidents and event management are very good. Additionally, there are many file types that are supported and there is no limit to the number of files it can handle simultaneously. It integrates well with SIEM solutions."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"Stability is never a concern."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"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."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The price could be better."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
