We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"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."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The solution has good features."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"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."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The solution is very expensive."
"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."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"It could be more secure."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX 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 Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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