We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and WatchGuard Firebox 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."Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Good load balancing feature."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"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 command feature is valuable."
"The hardware is stable."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The solution simplifies my business. Normally, for administration, we are using NetApp System Manager on Window since it's easy to create new policies. In a short amount of time, you can create new policies based on new requirements. For example, in the last few months, many requirements changed due to the coronavirus, adding the use of new services, like Office 365, and eLearning tools, like Zoom."
"The ease of use is most valuable. You can quickly train someone who hasn't seen a firewall in life. You can get people up to speed, and in a few months, they are able to manage this product very easily. It is a very user-friendly, scalable, and stable product. Its price is also spot-on."
"It also provides us with layered security. It has onboard virus scanning features that allow it to scan before something gets to the host. It will also stop a person from going to a site that is known to be bad."
"The throughput is great. It's perfect. We have no issues whatsoever. The management features are very powerful..."
"Because we bought two firewalls... we need a central place to manage the policies and deploy them to both devices. It's good that it provides a system management console that is able to manipulate and manage policies in one place and deploy them to different locations."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"The solution has increased productivity with our outside salespeople being able to connect into their computers and use those remotely."
"It's very easy to use, especially compared to similar products. A lot more users use the WatchGuard appliance now than use the SonicWall appliance because of the ease of usability."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The security feature must be improved."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"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."
"There are a couple of things I wished that it would do, but I can't think of those off the top of my head."
"Sometimes, the writing rules are a little confusing in how am I doing them."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"It's very hard to get information from their website, for exactly what I need to do. Sometimes I end up having to open a lot of support tickets... It's a navigational issue which makes it hard to find what I'm looking for and it's just so broad."
"The software base, the management piece that goes onto a server, is not as user-friendly as I would like. There are three different pieces that you have to manage, so it's a little bit convoluted, in my opinion."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
"Last year, I had an issue with one of the Fireboxes going down. It was overheated, because my server room became overheated and this fried it."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Rock-solid stability and easy to change the model". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and OPNsense, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Meraki MX and SonicWall TZ. See our Juniper vSRX vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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