We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"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."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
Earn 20 points
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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