We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The product offers very good security."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"The solution is reliable and scales well."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"It could be more secure."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type 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."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"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."
"Some users do not accept cloud-based data processing. They prefer on-premises functionality, especially for advanced threat analysis. While the general trend is moving towards cloud, specific customer needs should be considered. Perhaps certain functionalities, particularly in advanced threat analysis, could be offered as an on-premises option for those clients."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"They could improve by providing more features in the solution."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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