We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 payment function for applications is good."
"The product offers very good security."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The firewalling feature and the VPN functionality are excellent."
"The solution is easy to use. I like the monitoring the most."
"The scalability is very good."
"It filters unwanted traffic."
"Everything can be managed from a single dashboard nowadays."
"Making configuring numerous layers of security policies easy to use was always one of the things I liked most about their firewall solution."
"It has various features, like Threat Prevention and Antivirus. It is easier to use and have knowledge of a single device rather than multiple devices/technologies when doing an installation. It is also easy to use because of having Antivirus and Threat Prevention features within the same firewall."
"Now we can add application signature in the same rule base & don't have to create a different policy for that."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"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."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"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."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The UI could be improved."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"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 smart console is heavy."
"One of the main features that need improvement is the rule filter export."
"Support for customers really needs to improve."
"While the logs are very good and easy to understand, when you want to download these customized logs, they don't have as many features compared to competitive firewalls."
"It should allow more than two internet providers in its configuration of "ISP Redundancy"."
"The main thing for a normal operations guy who is creating tools and firewalls, it is quite difficult to manage. It requires an expert level of knowledge in Check Point products to manage these scalable platform appliances and the virtual firewall that comes with it. We have to educate our guys and give them training on a regular basis to work on these products."
"Potential improvements could be made around simplifying VPN functionality and configuration."
"One of my issues with Check Point is the stability. There have been too many bugs, over the years, when I compare them with other vendors. Their QA team should do better work before releasing their GA versions."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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