We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"Technical support has been good."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The user interface could be improved."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
Earn 20 points
Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , 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.
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