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.
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"For our very specific use case, for remote access for VPN, ASAs are very good."
"Its security and filtering are most valuable. Every layer of data that comes into the organization goes through it. After setting up the criteria, it automatically filters the traffic. We don't have to check it often."
"The feature my customers find the most valuable is the exportability."
"The most valuable feature is IPS. It's a feature that's very interesting for tackling the most current attacks."
"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."
"It just works for us."
"The product is easy to manage and simple. It works with the rest of our Cisco products. You can drop in new ones if you need more performance. The training and documentation provided are good."
"The solution's dashboard is fine, and in terms of support, Cisco is better than other OEMs in the market."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"It's easily scalable."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"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 Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"They could improve by having more skilled, high-level engineers that are available around the clock. I know that's an easy thing to say and a hard thing to do."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"We are Cisco partners, and when we recommend Cisco FirePower to customers, they always think that FirePower is bad. For a single installation of FirePower, if I have to write about 18 tickets to Cisco, it's a big problem. There was an issue was related to Azure. We had Active Directory in Azure. The clients had to connect to FirePower through Azure. We had a lot of group policies. After two group policies, we had to make groups in Azure, and they had to sign in and sign back. It was a triple-layer authentication, and there was a big problem, so we didn't use it."
"We use the FTD management platform for the boxes. The GUI that manages multiple Firepower boxes could be improved so that the user experience is better."
"The main problem we have is that things work okay until we upgrade the firmware, at which point, everything changes, and the net stops working."
"With the new FTD, there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"There's a little bit of a disconnect between Firepower’s management and the rest of the products, like DNA and Prime. The solution should have fewer admin portals for network, security, and firewalls."
"I would like it if there was a centralized way to manage policies, then sticking with the network functions on the actual devices. That is probably the thing that frustrates me the most. I want a way that you can manage multiple policies at several different locations, all at one site. You then don't have to worry about the connectivity piece, in case you are troubleshooting because connectivity is down."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 111 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Includes multiple tools that help manage and troubleshoot, but needs SD-WAN for load balancing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Useful telecom industry functionality, simple deployment, but lacking features". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Check Point NGFW and Juniper vSRX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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