We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The security on offer is very good."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"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."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"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."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"No negative impression of the scalability."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"It's a stable solution."
"We use the content filter quite a lot because it's an office setting. During working hours, we like to censor the sites users can visit so it increases productivity. Therefore, the content filter has been good for us."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"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."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"It needs more available central management."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"Support for SonicWall TZ needs improvement, particularly the time it takes before you're able to speak to a support person, e.g. you have to wait for at least 30 minutes on the phone."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"The products' reporting can be improved."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
