"The Adversity Malware Protection (AMP) feature is the most valuable. It is also very easy to use. Every technical user can operate this solution without any difficulty. The dashboard of Cisco Firepower has every tool that a security operator needs. You can find every resource that you need to operate through this dashboard."
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"You can also put everything into a nice, neat, little package, as far as configuration goes. I was formerly a command-line guy with the ASA, and I was a little nervous about dealing with a GUI interface versus a command line, but after I did my first deployment, I got a lot more comfortable with doing it GUI based."
"It is one of the fastest solutions, if not the fastest, in the security technology space. This gives us peace of mind knowing that as soon as a new attack comes online that we will be protected in short order. From that perspective, no one really comes close now to Firepower, which is hugely valuable to us from an upcoming new attack prevention perspective."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"It has been stable so far."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"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 Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"You can scale the solution."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. It wasn't a major challenge, but due to our requirements and network, it was not very straightforward but still easy enough."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"The main problem we have is that things work okay until we upgrade the firmware, at which point, everything changes, and the net stops working."
"An area of improvement for this solution is the console visualization."
"The performance should be improved."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"It could be more secure."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"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."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The reporting is lacking."
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Hillstone T-Series is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Juniper SRX is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 37 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.0, while Juniper SRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Customizable reports with advanced threat protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX writes "Scalable with good technical support and works well for larger organizations". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Hillstone E-Series, Cisco ASA Firewall, Sangfor NGAF and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Juniper SRX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, pfSense and Check Point NGFW. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Juniper SRX report.
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