We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"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."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The user interface is good."
"Two of the functionalities we use most are the traffic monitoring and the full panel dashboard. Those are two things that are very useful for us... In addition, it provides us with layered security. It allows us to determine what types of access, to which networks, we want to allow or deny."
"They've done a lot of work with their SD-WAN, which we do use, to have our old internet service with our new internet service. If anything goes down on a particular interface, I can have different rules applied. Most of my users don't even know when our primary internet goes down anymore... I don't have to be here to do anything to switch it to our backup internet or to switch it back."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, especially the real-time bandwidth usage report. Also, its integration with WiFi access points is nice."
"Firebox's best feature is the access portal."
"The policy monitoring and allowing different traffic flows are the most useful features for us; regulating which traffic comes in and out."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"It protects me against malicious websites, as well as malicious downloads, as a perimeter anti-virus. I've also seen it blocking a lot of pings and different probes."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The scalability could be better."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"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 technical support has room for improvement."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"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 could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
"The pricing could be improved. It is definitely one of the more expensive products."
"The UI and web view aren't nice."
"The solution can improve by adding a feature to tag a MAC address of a computer system in the policy and more IP configuration settings."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"If they could make the traffic monitoring easier that would be great. I don't use it that frequently, but I would like to see some improvements in the ease of use of that component, so it makes more sense. I know it's a technical component so there's going to be some difficulty trying to make that easier."
"When working with WatchGuard, specifically in configuring Panda Security on the portal for the first time, it was challenging for me."
"The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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