We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access 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.
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"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."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"The scalability is fine."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten...The setup phase was easy."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Application management can be improved."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"Technical support could be better."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
"I would like to see the ability to choose a pool of IPs for my company, set up rules based on them, and know that those IPs are not used by other companies."
"Zscaler should provide adjacent services, which would be complementary to their current offering that could to be more pragmatic for a customer. For example, if you take Akamai, you get multiple sets of services, all depending on the customer and the strategy and the complexity and the problems. In some areas, they are more varied in terms of coverage."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". 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 Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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