We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sangfor NGAF 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."You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The technical support is great."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The technical support is quite good."
"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."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"In terms of the most valuable features, the IPS report is quick and updated. Performance is also valuable."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"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."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"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."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"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."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"I would be happy if Sangfor developed a firewall designed specifically for home use, as well as for small businesses such as clinics and so on. A household version of the Sangfor firewall for your personal computer or laptop would be ideal, in my opinion."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sangfor NGAF 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 Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". 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 Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS and Check Point NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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