We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The product offers very good security."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"The product's stability is good."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"I'm able to transfer data over internet network security. With the GRE I'm able to transfer data within one bunch to another bunch in a public way, like the internet. The communication is encrypted and is private. It gives me added privacy."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"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."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"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."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Its price could be better."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"There are the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"I would like to see much more embedded security that works and that isn't a bolt-on."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"The user interface and the GUI need 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 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."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Netgate pfSense, 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 Cisco IOS Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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