We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access 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."It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"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."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"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 GUI is simple to use."
"The cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"One on the main benefits is protection all time from anywhere."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The solution is stable."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Lacks training for new features."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"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."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"It could be more secure."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"They could provide more time for the onboarding the training of an IT person."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"Sometimes, support isn't available."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". 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 Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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