We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"The user interface is good."
"With the main firewall routing there, we can do connectivity point-to-point. On the low bandwidth we can connect in all the branches with my corporate office."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"It's a stable solution."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"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."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
"We require centralized monitoring of the network features, which they have but they are not to the level that we require."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"It would be good if Analyzer would be part of the stock license, so even if a layperson is getting the device, he or she doesn't forgets about ordering the Analyzer because it's already there."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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