We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The solution is stable."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The solution has good features."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The command feature is valuable."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The centralization capability is the most valuable feature of this solution as it enables us to monitor our systems efficiently."
"One of the simple features I like about Palo Alto firewalls is that it's extremely easy to find out what's happening in the network. The reporting is phenomenal, and it's easy to find which threats have been detected and what traffic is going through the box. When a customer notices something is wrong, you can quickly check the amount of traffic going through the firewall around that time. If there is anything out of the ordinary, you can decide it needs to be investigated further."
"Operationally, it is easier, and the manageability and their security features are good."
"Identifying applications is very easy with this solution."
"The feature that I like the most is its IPS model, the WildFire model. I really like how the whole threat protection model functions, including the vulnerability and anti-spyware aspects. That is really awesome."
"One of the things I really like about it is that we have the same features and functions available on the entry-level device (PA-220), as do large corporations with much more costly appliances."
"I typically get involved with it when it comes to audit and compliance and having to gather evidence of those firewalls, routers, and rule sets. The evidence that I typically need is there."
"Their Prisma log collection is pretty great. Our product collects the logs, and it definitely makes the configuration of log collection easier."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The reporting can be improved."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"When it comes to their support, we have to select every single component that we want to include in a particular bundle. That is a very tedious process. T"
"In terms of what could be improved, comparatively the price is very high. That would be the one thing."
"I am in GCC in the Middle East. The support that we are getting from Palo Alto is disastrous. The problem is that the support ticket is opened through the distributor channel. Before opening a ticket, we already do a lot of troubleshooting, and when we open a ticket, it goes to a distributor channel. They end up wasting our time again doing what we have already done. They execute the same things and waste time. The distributor channel's engineer tries to troubleshoot, and after spending hours, they forward the ticket to Palo Alto. It is a very time-consuming process. The distributor channels also do not operate 24/7, and they are very lazy in responding to the calls."
"I like the reports, but I wish the reporting was a little better. When I set up the automatic reports to come in, they're pretty basic. I would like them to be a little more advanced at the ACC monitoring and things like that. I still enjoy all the daily alerts that I get and all the daily PDFs and reports, but I just feel that it could expand upon the visualization of the reports."
"Its price can be improved. It is expensive. Other vendors have pre-configured policies for the protection of web servers. Palo Alto has an official procedure for protecting the web servers. Many people prefer pre-configured policies, but for me, it is not an issue."
"I would like to see some Machine Learning because I have observed new types of attacks that are able to bypass existing security rules."
"There are some advanced features that we aren't able to use, which include active IP authentication and app ID. We are facing challenges with implementing those two features."
"We need better affiliations for profiling the user."
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Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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