We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX finishes slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks WildFire in this comparison. Juniper SRX provides robust enterprise network protection and connectivity and comprehensive performance, is stable, and scales easily. Palo Alto Network WildFire can be challenging for some users to learn. The overall configuration is a bit complex to use.
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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 most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"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."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"The technical support is good."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"It could be more secure."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"I would like them to add a dashboard because it's difficult to operate."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Check Point SandBlast Network and Zscaler Internet Access.
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