We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Performance is a strong point."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"No negative impression of the scalability."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"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."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The UI could be improved."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The quality of tech support can vary."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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