We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"Good load balancing feature."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"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."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"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 IPSec configuration is going well."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"The UI could be improved."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
