We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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 next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"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."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while McAfee StoneGate [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 StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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 StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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