We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The GUI is good."
"It is a safe product."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"The user interface is good."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"Sometimes I have some queries, and the SonicWall support team resolves my queries."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"It has excellent stability."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"The cost could be lower. There could also be more flexibility for smaller companies."
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos UTM. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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