We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It performs very well."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"You can scale the solution."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"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 high availability of the application is good."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"The most valuable features have been content filtering, and the interface is easy to navigate and to use."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall TZ is the double authentication, where it asks for one password and again asks for a four-digit code, which changes every 30 seconds."
"It is very stable with no issues. The firewall's been up for the past 35 days non-stop. It's performed great. It has performed as it should perform."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The solution is very expensive."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"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."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I would like them to make the interface a little bit easier to use so you can find out where in the heck you're going instead of having to go to 15 different places to get something installed."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"The products' reporting can be improved."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"User interface could be improved."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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