We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."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 I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"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."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The solution can autoscale."
"I can easily configure it."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The hardware is stable."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"The security feature must be improved."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The reporting can be improved."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Azure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
See our list of best Firewalls vendors.
We monitor all Firewalls reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
