We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The performance is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"The technical support is good."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"The product is easy to use."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"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."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"The reports are very basic."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"There could be a bit more functions on offer that could make it easier to use."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"There are the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"I would love it if it has a link-by-link feature, integration with Unified Threat Management (UTM), and load balancers. They haven't got any link-by-link feature right now, which can be a very attractive option. This link-by-link feature can also be made available for Cisco's UTM firewalls. The link-by-link feature is available in some of the other firewalls. Currently, integration with UTM is missing. Cisco IOS Security also doesn't have the load balancers and a few things that need to be done to get a good UTM firewall. Normally, other firewalls have UTM. As a next-generation firewall, it's good, but as a UTM, it has to do some work."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Netgate pfSense, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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