We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"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."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"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."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The backup is the best feature."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"We get support in the free version."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"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."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"The product only has basic features."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The price could be better."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
