We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and SonicWall NSa 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."The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"It's very easy to configure."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"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 authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The solution has good features."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
"Do not even consider NetExtender - probably one of the most horrific, nightmare grade Java-based VPN clients. We have but all given up trying to make it work reliably."
"The user interface could be better."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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