We performed a comparison between Fortinet Fortigate and Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Fortinet Fortigate seems to be a superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers felt that Juniper SRX’s user interface as well as its pricing could be improved.
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"The most important feature is the intensive way you can troubleshoot Cisco Firepower Firewalls. You can go to the bit level to see why traffic is not handled in the correct way, and the majority of the time it's a networking issue and not a firewall issue. You can solve any problem without Cisco TAC help, because you can go very deeply under the hood to find out how traffic is flowing and whether it is not flowing as expected. That is something I have never seen with other brands."
"So far, it has been very stable."
"We found the initial setup to be easy."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"With the pandemic, people began working from home. That was a pretty big move, having all our users working from a home. More capacity needed to be added to our remote VPN. ASA did this very well."
"The features that are most valuable within the firewall are the IPS as well as the Unified Communications. We also really like the dynamic grouping."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The performance is good."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"It's easily scalable."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"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."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"They should work on making it a little more intuitive for users and not quite as complex. Still, it's a good product."
"The only improvement that we could make is maybe [regarding] the roadmap, to have better visibility as to what we are targeting ahead in the next few quarters."
"Third-party integrations could be improved."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"We're getting support but there's a big delay until we get a response from their technical team. They're in the USA and we're in Africa, so that's the difficulty. When they're in the office, they respond."
"I would like to see them add more next-generation features so that you don't need a lot of appliances to do just one task. It should be a single solution."
"Sometimes, it is not easy to troubleshoot. You need to know where to go. It took me quite awhile. It's like, "Okay, if it doesn't go smoothly here, then go find the documentation." Once you do it, it is not so bad. However, it is sometimes a steep learning curve on the troubleshooting part of it."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"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."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The reporting is lacking."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 89 reviews while Juniper SRX is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "SSL proxy makes URL filtering easier because the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX writes "Scalable with good technical support and works well for larger organizations". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with pfSense, Sophos XG, Check Point NGFW, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Juniper SRX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, pfSense, Meraki MX, Check Point NGFW and Sophos XG. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Juniper SRX report.
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