We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access 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."The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The users are at different locations, and Zscaler helps us to put the organization's central security controls on these roaming users."
"Zscaler Internet Access has helped us reduce the time that we spend managing security policies by about four hours a week. We can use this time to focus on other things, especially the IT team."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"Zscaler Internet Access protects using data loss prevention. If you have a CASB exposing your cloud out into the network, then Zscaler Internet Access will go ahead and control that unknown cloud application in the CASB, protecting it. There is also data detection with exact data match. This improves the data coming into your cloud so you are protecting it."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"The cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"We don't have to buy equipment to use it. And when our engineers set it up on our side, we just configured a few settings and we were in."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
"The OS capabilities and WSL support could be improved."
"We'd like to have more plugins and integration."
"Another thing that I would like to see is if Zscaler could have a separate product for direct access. I looked at a private access solution, but I understand there's a separate product that isn't integrated with this."
"It needs better integration with other applications. It takes a fair amount of regular activity to apply the by-passes because it is very strict in its restrictions and frequently you have to go in and open things up to allow the workforce to work."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"The main issue with Zscaler Internet Access is proxy IP detection, which sometimes makes sites inaccessible."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". 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 Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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