We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and user interface. This is already a well-established product in the market for quite a long time, more than 20 years. They've got a huge customer base."
"The Check Point API let me make 100 net rules in just 10 minutes, which saved us time."
"The solution offers a good GUI."
"Only allows authorized connections and prevents vulnerabilities in a network."
"The support offers the best services I have experienced. It's better than any other IT vendor."
"Check Point has a really cool GUI."
"The firewall feature and DDoS Protector, when turned on, keep away attacks from the outside. They also prevent users from accessing things on the Internet that they are not supposed to access."
"The simplicity of the access control is the most valuable feature for us. It gives us the ability to easily identify traffic that is either being allowed or denied to our network."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"One of Juniper vSRX's most valuable features is its integration with safety applications. It keeps the software secure from developers without relying on third-party solutions."
"The command feature is valuable."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"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."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"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."
"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."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"For the user or anyone else who is using Check Point, they are more into the GUI stuff. Check Point has its SmartConsole. On the console, you have to log into the MDS or CMS. Then, from there, you have to go onto that particular firewall and put in the changes. If the management console could be integrated onto the GUI itself, that would be one thing that I would recommend."
"While the solution is good, we wish to have something that is a bit better, as the threats have evolved over time."
"It is a bit expensive according to the required blades but it is a platform that is worth having as security in a corporate."
"The improvement could come from better monitoring of traffic data in and out of the firewall."
"The tool’s architecture could be improved a bit."
"There needs to be more storage space for reporting."
"The distributor support capability is quite lacking as the problem/incident is rarely solved on the distributor level and instead escalated to the principal."
"The quality of the console should be improved in terms of aesthetics."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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