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 are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its simplicity, highly user-centric, and performs well. The line speed and for heavy traffic, is helpful for us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"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."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"It's easily scalable."
"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."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Application management can be improved."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The solution could improve the log retention and reports."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"They're using a lot of application-specific IC, so that may be causing some performance issues. And whenever a Fortinet adds new features, it can affect performance."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
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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