We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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 SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"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."
"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."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"Sometimes I found the GUI and some of the features a little bit hard to navigate, as opposed to Fortigate, which is much more user-friendly."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos UTM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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