We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall vs Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Each of them have a good set of features, and the solution you choose will ultimately be dependent on your company’s specific preferences and requirements.
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"It's very easy to configure."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Cisco ASA works out-of-the-box. With the setup wizard, it was easy to get it deployed quickly, even by novice IT users."
"Management Console and user profiling to define activities."
"The AnyConnect remote access VPN gives us an easy way to deploy remote working for our users."
"The solution is pretty easy to deploy."
"The command line is the same as it is on the Cisco iOS router."
"The product offers good scalability."
"What I found the most valuable about Cisco Secure Firewall is that if a client is educated about the solution, it can help him or her avoid many problems and mistakes."
"The Inline Mode configuration works really well, and ASA works very impressively."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"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."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"It is confusing to have two management interfaces, e.g., ASDM and Firepower Management Center."
"The product needs real-time logs to be able to monitor our services, so we can know if any our services have been blocked via the firewall or on the application side."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"The artificial intelligence and machine learning (behavioral based threat detection), which I can this will be coming out in another year, these are what we need now."
"It doesn't have a proper GUI to do troubleshooting, so most people have to rely on the command line."
"I would like the ability to pick and choose different features of it to run in a packaged infrastructure or modules, therefore I would like to have more customizability over it."
"An area of improvement for this solution is the console visualization."
"I would like to see more configurable feature parity with Cisco ASA, which is the legacy product that Cisco is moving away from. When configuring remote access VPN, not all of the options are there. You have to download another tool, which means that the configuration takes a little bit longer with Cisco Secure Firewall. Though it's getting there, there are still some features lagging behind."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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