We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"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."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"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."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"The setup process should be improved."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The reporting is lacking."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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