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."The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"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."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"Great security and connectivity."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"The solution can autoscale."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"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 basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"The security feature must be improved."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 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, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense. See our Azure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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