We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"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 technical support in our region is excellent."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"I like that the firewall gives me a lot of control in terms of outgoing and inbound traffic, and it scores better in deep packet inspections when compared with the Azure Firewall."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"It's easy to use."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"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 features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"Some features I have found to be hidden and cannot be accessed through the graphical user interface, you can only access them through the command-line interface(CLI). All the features should be accessible through the graphical user interface."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The reporting is lacking."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"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."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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