We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 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."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"It provides good routing and high performance of the data center."
"The virtualization feature is the most valuable feature. Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites."
"The scalability is fine."
"You can scale the solution."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The solution is reliable and scales well."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"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."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"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."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"They could improve by providing more features in the solution."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"The tool needs to improve integration with more products from other vendors. I would like the product to add threat intelligence features as well."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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