We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Juniper vSRX 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 CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"The technical support has been good."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"I would like to see the features of FortiAnalyzer included in Fortinet FortiOS. Right now, you're required to have an additional license and a different device for features such as processing the log, reporting, and analyzing traffic."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"It could use more tutorials."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper vSRX 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 vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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