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."The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It performs very well."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature would be ASDM. The ability to go in, visualize and see the world base in a clear and consistent manner is very powerful."
"With the FMC and the FirePOWERs, the ability to quickly replace a piece of hardware without having to have a network outage is useful. Also, the ability to replace a piece of equipment and deploy the config that the previous piece of equipment had is pretty useful."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"Valuable features include DMZ segmentation, and IDS and IPS."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"Sourcefire has been a great addition. The visibility and control have been nice."
"It is scalable and stable."
"The integration and configuration were pretty straightforward."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"They've become quite expensive."
"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."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Cisco should improve its user interface design. There is a deep learning curve to the product if you are a newcomer."
"They need a user-friendly interface that we could easily configure."
"Cisco Firepower is not completely integrated with Active Directory. We are trying to use Active Directory to restrict users by using some security groups that are not integrated within the Cisco Firepower module. This is the main issue that we are facing."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the UTM part should be more integrated for one price, because if you buy ASA from Cisco, you need to buy another contract service from Cisco as a filter for the dictionary of attacks. In Fortinet, you buy a firewall and you have it all."
"Also, they have a Firepower source file that I can work on the ASA device and on Firepower devices. A problem here lies in the way that you manage these devices. Some devices do not support the FMC, and some devices have to be managed through ASDM, and others have to be managed through FMC."
"In general, they can make it easier to manage the solutions. They can make it easier in terms of administration and provide a single tool for different firewalling solutions. They have different tools to manage different firewalls, such as Firepower or ASA. Sometimes, both are on the same thing. You have ASA with Firepower modules, so you manage some of the things via HTML, and then you manage some of the things via another management tool. It's not seamless."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"The security features in the URL category need more improvement."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"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."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The security feature must be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
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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