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."We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The scalability is fine."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"This is a very reliable firewall and we have never had problems with it."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"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."
"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."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"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 technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The product should get frequent updates allowing us to add new signatures."
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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