We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure 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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"The integration of network and workload micro-segmentation helps a lot to provide unified segmentation policies across east-west and north-south traffic. One concrete example is with Cisco ACI for the data center. Not only are we doing what is called a service graph on the ACI to make sure that we can filter traffic east-west between two endpoints in the same network, but when we go north-south or east-west, we can then leverage what we have on the network with SGTs on Cisco ISE. Once you build your matrix, it is very easy to filter in and out on east-west or north-south traffic."
"It is scalable and stable."
"Sourcefire has been a great addition. The visibility and control have been nice."
"Because of the deeper inspection it provides we have better security and sections that allow users broader access."
"Cisco Secure Firewall has improved our customers' security posture because it offers Next-Gen features, granularity, and reporting on the back of it. You can see the amount of users accessing Office 365, for example, and whether they're having a good or bad experience. You can see the threats that are coming into your network. You can see anyone who is compromised from within your network."
"It provides security for our company and users."
"At this point, we find that this product has high productivity and high availability and there is no need for improvement."
"The command feature is valuable."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The solution has good features."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Setting firewall network rules should be more straightforward with a clearer graphical representation. The rule-setting method seems old-fashioned. The firewall and network rules are separate from the Firepower and web access rules."
"I think they need to review their whole UI because it feels like it was created by a whole bunch of different teams of developers who didn't fully talk to each other. The net policy screen is just a mess. It should look like the firewall policy screen, and they should both act the same, but they don't. I feel like it's two different buildings or programming, who don't talk to each other, and that really annoys me."
"One of the few things that are brought up is that for the overall management, it would be great to have a cloud instance of that. And not only just a cloud instance, but one of the areas that we've looked at is using an HA type of cloud. To have the ability to have a device file within a cloud. If we had an issue with one, the other one would pick up automatically."
"Cisco provides us with application visibility and control, although it's not a complete solution compared to other vendors. Cisco needs to work on the application behavior side of things, in particular when it comes to the behavior of SSL traffic."
"The IPS and GUI are outdated."
"Integration aspects and traffic shaping need improvement."
"I would like to see the inclusion of a protocol that can be used to protect databases."
"They should allow customers to talk to them directly instead of having to go through the reseller."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper vSRX 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 vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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