We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The scalability is fine."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"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."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"The product only has basic features."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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