We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX finishes slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks WildFire in this comparison. Juniper SRX provides robust enterprise network protection and connectivity and comprehensive performance, is stable, and scales easily. Palo Alto Network WildFire can be challenging for some users to learn. The overall configuration is a bit complex to use.
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"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 security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"You have better control because you define apps. You just don't define ports. You define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic. It is more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"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 would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"Third-party support for Juniper is a lot less than Cisco. This is no surprise, but a definite consideration if you are expecting to use a lot of third party support. In my guesstimate, for every 100 Cisco shops, you will find one Juniper shop."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"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."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The price could be better."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Check Point SandBlast Network and Zscaler Internet Access.
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