We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall vs Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Each of them have a good set of features, and the solution you choose will ultimately be dependent on your company’s specific preferences and requirements.
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Netting is one of the best features. We can modify it in different ways. Site-to-site VPN is also an awesome feature of Cisco ASA. The biggest advantage of Cisco products is technical support. They provide the best technical support."
"There are some hiccups here and there, but compared to the technical support from other vendors, I have had the best experience with Cisco's technical support. I would rate them at nine out of ten."
"Network segmentation is the most valuable feature."
"I like them mostly because they don't break and they have great diagnostics."
"It's very scalable. You can go to different models of the ASAs and they scale up to as big as you want to go."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the VPN because we use it often."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"Malicious URLs are being blocked."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"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."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"It's easily scalable."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The UI could be improved."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The overall licensing structure could improve to make the solution better."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"Some of the features, like the stability, need to be improved."
"The content filtering on an application level is not as good as other solutions such as Palo Alto."
"We would like to be able to manage a set of firewalls rather than individual firewalls. We haven't really looked into it or yet implemented it, but a single pane of glass would be helpful. We also use another vendor's firewalls, and they have a centralized management infrastructure that we have implemented, which makes it a little bit easier when you're managing lots of firewalls."
"At times the product is sluggish and slow"
"Cisco still has a lot of work to do. You can convert an ASA over to a Firepower, but the competitors, like Palo Alto and Juniper, are coming in. And believe it or not, they are a little bit more intuitive. Cisco has a little bit more work to do. They're playing catch up."
"The access layer of this solution could be improved in terms of the way the devices interconnect with our network. We need to be able to analyze the traffic between the different interconnection in these areas."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"It could be more secure."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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