We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"This is an easy means of setting up high-availabilty firewall protection."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"It's very easy to use."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Backup can be improved."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"They need to integrate more with the SD-WAN."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"A switch should be introduced."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"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 user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"Does not offer protection for IoT devices"
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas 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. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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