We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"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 solution has proven to be quite stable."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"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 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."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"The stability is better than other products."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"It has excellent stability."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"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 don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"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/"
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"It's very hard to manage this box. You really need a lot of skills to operate the SonicWall. There is training and the like, but it's just hard to manage. Even if you have the knowledge, there are too many options. The menus are not very clear, where you should find the information."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
