Juniper SRX Series Firewall Benefits

Jeff Ehrenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at ADS

Overall, in terms of uptime, they are very stable and reliable, which has benefited our organization.

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IhorShtanko - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at MUK

Juniper recently announced a new SRX model that's very powerful, so I'm currently satisfied with the offerings.

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RL
Senior Network Administrator at Zetec, Inc.

This product has definitely not improved the way our organization functions.

I am familiar with Cisco products and when we purchased the Juniper units, they told us that if you know Cisco IOS then Juniper SRX is really easy. It isn't. It would be like saying that if you know English, then Chinese is really easy. The reality is that it's completely different. There's no commonality and the philosophies are different. Everything is different.

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Buyer's Guide
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
March 2024
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SG
First Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Juniper router has a firewall built-in, which is a nice security enhancement for our organization. It adds a bit more value.

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VK
Key Account Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Juniper SRX has helped in the financial success of our organization.

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SS
Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

If you require any particular rule that needs to be modified, any particular rule that needs to be fine-tuned, the solution will give you all the details regarding how to fine-tune the policy, including the destination, IP, et cetera. You can easily fine-tune whatever you need to in Juniper. It's easy to implement and meets our patience threshold. 

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it_user845487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at Kitsap Credit Union
  • Once our engineers got their heads wrapped around the nuances of Juniper's CLI (took them about six months) with training (mostly free) and were able to get settled into Junos OS, we never looked back.
  • SRX firewalls/IDP functions require similar technical knowledge level as Cisco ASA and are function on par with them. I recommend investing in Juniper Space if you have a significant amount of Juniper equipment to manage. We have three of the larger SRX550s, with one cluster configuration, for edge security devices (firewall/IDPs). We are very happy with them. 
  • Not specifically in SRX category, but the 40Gb/10Gb interfaces in the QFX gear are truly wired for speed on all available ports. The virtual EX switch chassis configuration, where up to 10 switching devices can be managed as a single network device, is a solid configuration for us. We use it in three locations and have zero issues with it.
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DH
Network Architect - Contractor at TEML

It allows us to do remote configuration changes, and if there is a problem, not losing connectivity to the device.

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FG
Senior Network Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Juniper was a later model, later technology than we had, more horsepower than we had before. The performance is better, but it could have been any firewall in its peer group. The improvement was because our old firewalls were, well, old. So the performance has been an improvement. And the IDS, perhaps, is a little better than what the older firewalls had.

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it_user701490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network | Firewall Engineer - Cloud Managed Services Delivery at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There was a business need to provide service high availability and system redundancy in addition to routing and firewalling at the internet edge and the datacenter core.

Having this design has greatly simplified the network and improved operational efficiency of support staffs.

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HP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I got to learn CLI after purchasing the solution. It counts as a benefit for me.

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SO
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Theere has been no change to our organization. We replaced an older Cisco ASA. We intended to use some of the UTM features, but we have not yet. In some cases, it is worse. We can’t do remote access IPsec VPNs for users like we could with the Cisco ASA. Instead, we set up OpenVPN. As the Cisco ASA is the de facto standard, doing a site-to-site IPsec VPN to other companies takes more time (e.g., IKEv2 will not work connecting to Cisco gear because traffic selectors are not supported for IKEv2).

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it_user738864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Thanks to the well-structured and organized security policies, we decreased operations time to create/update/delete our security policies.

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Ahmed_Taha - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Operations at Diverse

Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router.

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ANanonymous - PeerSpot reviewer
Consumer Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allows users connecting from homes, who urgently need to log into the networks through a secure tunnel without using internet IP gateway, access using a SSL.

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TM
Senior Network and Security Consultant, JNCIE-SEC#408 at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The greatest improvement we have seen is in operational performance and operational stability. There are no outages.

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MF
GCD Network Architecture Manager at Technicolor

Before, we were handling everything with a Vyatta server until our network became more complex.

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SM
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Previously, we had different routers for each of the incoming lines to the office, and we had other firewalls on the backend to manage them. Now, we have changed all of these, and we have all the lines coming into one single solution, which is SRX. We manage everything very easily from one single interface. Previously, we used to have 10 different devices to do that. Now, we have only one.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This is a product on the customer side, not in our services. What I have identified so far is that, considering the complex deployment that the customer wanted to make, the scalability with the feature support that they already have, and its functionality provided, Juniper SRX was one of the better products available. It helped us to scale well with that product customer requirement because they wanted the IT side on a virtual router, with a firewall so it was integrated to work. Such a complex setup cannot be easily accomplished by just using a firewall. SRX actually helps us scale and integrate the product according to customer requirements. It also 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.

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MA
Data Department Manager at BTC Networks

As we are a solution provider and not product oriented, we give the best solution for our customers, with a good price. We are the number one company in the region, BTC, and operate in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.

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JA
Senior Network Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
  • Manipulation of rules
  • Flexibility in day-by-day use
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it_user707172 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT System Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It provides good routing and high performance of the data center. It solves protecting our datacenter, separate networks and protect data center with FW policies + DPI

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MS
Principal Director of IT at Reanaud-bray

It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did.

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TA
Network Manager with 1-10 employees

It helps us perform our daily jobs.

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it_user697011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has greatly reduced the network management functions by reducing the number of devices to manage (one vs three), and easy fault management using the new GUI.

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TK
Engineer at icraft

vSRX's performance is best with less resources, such as CPU and memory. It is easy to scale up by attaching more CPU and memory.

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it_user222999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It provides us with easy options for troubleshooting.

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ME
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has a high security implementation.

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it_user453054 - PeerSpot reviewer
NCP Team Lead Secured Networks at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have experienced more dependability.

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it_user700152 - PeerSpot reviewer
NOKIA Lead Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It improved in term of security.

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it_user231273 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We’ve connected this product on a GSM core network for a 3G deployment project.

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Buyer's Guide
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Juniper SRX Series Firewall. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.