We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall vs Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Each of them have a good set of features, and the solution you choose will ultimately be dependent on your company’s specific preferences and requirements.
"Good load balancing feature."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The technical support is great."
"The solution is scalable."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The greatest benefit for the organization is the confidence that we are secured."
"We are mostly using it for remote access, so the remote access feature is the most valuable, but all other features are also needed and required. It is also a very straightforward and reliable solution."
"The most valuable feature must be AnyConnect. We have quite a few customers who use it. It is easy to use and the stablest thing that we have. We have experienced some issues on all our VPN clients, but AnyConnect has been the stablest one."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the VPN because we use it often."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"Once you add Firepower onto to it and you start enabling some of its features, you get some IDS/IPS involved with it and you can even do web filtering."
"The return on investment is not going to be restricted to just the box... Now, these genres have been expanded to cyber, to third-party integrations, having integrated logging, having integrated micro and macro segmentations. The scope has been widened, so the ROI, eventually, has multiplied."
"The most valuable feature of the Firepower solution is FireSIGHT, which can be easily managed and is user-friendly."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"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."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"Performance is a strong point."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The phishing emails could be improved."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"ASDM can be improved."
"The product line does not address the SMB market as it is supposed to do. Cisco already has an on-premises sandbox solution."
"With the new FTD, there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"With regards to stability, we had a critical bug come out during our evaluation... not good."
"Cisco's inspection visibility could be better."
"Its implementation was not straightforward. It was mainly because we were running two projects together."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The reporting is lacking."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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