We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"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's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"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."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"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."
"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."
"It's easily scalable."
"The scalability is fine."
"Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it."
"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."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The technical support has been good."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The solution has good features."
"The command feature is valuable."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The Juniper product has to improve in terms of innovation."
"It could be more secure."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"They really need to improve the GUI."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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