We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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 scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"Policy VPN, site-to-site VPN, traffic monitoring, anti-spam filters, and all other advanced features are valuable."
"There are no problems with the technical support. If a problem occurs it gets resolved immediately with our technical support partners."
"All of the features have been valuable. There's nothing on my M270 that I'm not using. If you have remote access, you can see how many users are coming from the outside world to be connected to the systems, through the virus systems that we have behind the firewall, in order to gain access to their files and do their work. We can also see how long they stay online and whether these connections are closed forcefully or for any other reasons, such as a glitch or some kind of misbehavior, to see if internet traffic is optimized and if that particular traffic is under company policies, concerning which websites were visited."
"The solution has many security features. We have an intrusion provision system and filtering and block filtering."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We experienced that WatchGuard is easy to setup regarding VPN compared to other firewalls of other brands."
"The set up of the VPN is pretty straightforward. Being able to build VPNs on the fly for certain users, if need be, is also valuable."
"The solution has increased productivity with our outside salespeople being able to connect into their computers and use those remotely."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"The software base, the management piece that goes onto a server, is not as user-friendly as I would like. There are three different pieces that you have to manage, so it's a little bit convoluted, in my opinion."
"The data loss protection works well, but it could be easier to configure. The complexity of data loss protection makes it a more difficult feature to fully leverage. Better integration with third-party, two-factor authentication would be advantageous."
"I would like to see the devices made more flexible by adding modules to increase the ports that we can use."
"The drawbacks are just sometimes not having the technical information that we need in order to easily make connections with all of our Internet-based clients."
"It would be wonderful if the WatchGuard team develops nice products for threat intelligence."
"There is room for improvement in the threat protection, data packet inspection, and performance of the solution. Generally, it's just a lower-end product. It does the job but doesn't do it very well."
"The usability could be better, but it is definitely manageable. If we have to go to a backup internet connection, that could be a little bit easier."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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