"The most valuable feature would be ASDM. The ability to go in, visualize and see the world base in a clear and consistent manner is very powerful."
"Firepower has reduced our firewall operational costs by about 25 percent."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"The content filtering is good."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"One of the most valuable features of Firepower 7.0 is the "live log" type feature called Unified Event Viewer. That view has been really good in helping me get to data faster, decreasing the amount of time it takes to find information, and allowing me to fix problems faster. I've found that to be incredibly valuable because it's a lot easier to get to some points of data now."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"One of the advantages of pfSense is that it is very easy to work with. It is a very good open-source solution, and it works really well. pfSense provides a complete package. For some features, it could be the first solution in the world. It is a very good alternative in the market for a firewall solution. You don't need to go to Cisco or other brands with expensive firewalls. pfSense also allows us to offer some support services."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance."
"The concurrent users are perfect for us."
"The built-in open VPN and the VPN Client Export are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"The documentation is very good."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"Report generation is an area that should be improved."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"I believe that the current feature set of the device is very good and the only thing that Cisco should work on is improving the user experience with the device."
"When you make any changes, irrespective of whether they are big or small, Firepower takes too much time. It is very time-consuming. Even for small changes, you have to wait for 60 seconds or maybe more, which is not good. Similarly, when you have many IPS rules and policies, it slows down, and there is an impact on its performance."
"Its interface is sometimes is a little bit slow, and it can be improved. When you need to put your appliance in failover mode, it is a little difficult to do it remotely because you need to turn off the appliance in Cisco mode. In terms of new features, it would be good to have AnyConnect VPN with Firepower. I am not sure if it is available at the moment."
"An area of improvement for this solution is the console visualization."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"Juniper SRX's UI is very bad."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"There are some bias issues and some intrusions in our network that have to be addressed. So, we're thinking of changing this firewall to something like a professional hardware-enabled firewall."
"We had training from an advisor for the configuring of this solution and it was not difficult. However, if we were not trained it would have been not as easy."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner."
"It could use a little bit of improvement in the reporting."
"If you want to take advantage of all of the solution's options, you need to have a bit of a technical background. It's not for a layperson."
"The product could offer more integrated plugins."
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Juniper SRX is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while pfSense is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX is rated 7.8, while pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX writes "Scalable with good technical support and works well for larger organizations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of pfSense writes "Feature-rich, well documented, and there is good support available online". Juniper SRX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW, whereas pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Juniper SRX vs. pfSense report.
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