We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"There are a lot of features that we like within the solution. The resources or performance of the firewall is very good. However, the real selling point is the fact that the solution offers so many features, it gives our clients a lot of extras that they can work with. There's a lot on offer."
"The interface is good."
"The fact that is it has a UTM, a Unified Threat Management feature is the most valuable aspect for us. It's an all in one product. It's like our one-stop-shop to the internet."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"This is a user friendly solution and offers comprehensive integrations."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The pricing is excellent."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"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."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, 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 Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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