We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"The user interface is good."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"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."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"It could be more secure."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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