We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is commended for its VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is highly regarded for its simplicity, user-friendly interface, and robust assistance.
Check Point could enhance its support system, cluster creation on AWS, data protection visibility, DLP feature, user interface, integration, cost reduction, documentation, and flexibility in deployment. Juniper SRX Series Firewall needs enhancements in capacity, pricing strategy, reporting and alerts, user interface, reliability, warranty, administration, documentation, and feature range.
Service and Support: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has received varying feedback regarding its customer service, with some customers appreciating the technical support provided, while others have encountered delays in response time. Juniper SRX Series Firewall generally garners positive reviews for its customer service, which is deemed helpful and knowledgeable. However, there have been occasional instances of slower response times reported.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security's initial setup is considered straightforward, although it may require technical expertise. The deployment time can range from one day to a few days. Juniper SRX Series Firewall setup is generally straightforward and can be completed within a day for small-scale branch offices. However, there is a learning curve involved and users may need CLI experience.
Pricing: The cost of setting up Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is seen as high, whereas Juniper is viewed as reasonably priced and affordable. Users note that Check Point's pricing may differ based on the size of the organization and the country, while Juniper's pricing is considered average.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security offers significant cost savings and centralized management, resulting in a strong return on investment. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is highly dependable and has excellent uptime. It also provides enhanced security features, contributing to a positive ROI for its users.
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the preferred product over Juniper SRX Series Firewall. It is praised for its user-friendly setup and valuable features such as VPN Blade, IPS Blade, URL filtering, and Applications Control Blade. Users appreciate its advanced threat prevention, centralized management, scalability, and focus on cloud security.
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The interface is very good."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure."
"The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The scalability is fine."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"There is room for improvement regarding the technical support provided."
"The convergence time between cluster members is still not perfect. It's far away from what we get in traditional appliances. If a company wants to move mission-critical applications for an environment to the cloud, it somehow has to accept that it could have downtime of up to 40 seconds, until cluster members switch virtual IP addresses between themselves and start accepting the traffic. That is a little bit too high in my opinion. It's not fully Check Point's fault, because it's a hybrid mechanism with AWS. The blame is 50/50."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"I want the upgrades of their CloudGuard solution to major versions to be easier. We have had a few small hiccups. They have different types of cloud clusters called Geo Clusters, and those just cannot be upgraded past a certain point, which is a hurdle that we are currently experiencing."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"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."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas 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. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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