Juniper SRX Series Firewall Valuable Features

MURALI NIDAMANURI - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at VIPUN COGNITIVE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.

The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple.

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EricLo - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant IT Manager - Infrastructure & Operation at Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co Ltd

This brand is one of the top three solutions in terms of firewall protection. 

The performance has been very good overall. 

We've been pleased with its overall security capabilities. 

The setup is pretty straightforward. 

It's stable and reliable.

The solution can scale. 

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PJ
Owner at Shree Atharva Sales Corporation

It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable.

I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance.

Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team.

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Buyer's Guide
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Juniper SRX Series Firewall. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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Muhammad_Faisal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager ITSM at Lucky Cement Limited

Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution. I am confident about the solution from a security perspective because it is difficult to penetrate.

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Mr. Qalat Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Transport Planning Carrier, Enterprise & IP(Team Lead) at Mobilink GSM

The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry.

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GD
ICT Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable. The interface is straightforward and we have not had any problems with integration.

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GlennCamilien - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product.

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Jeff Ehrenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at ADS

The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products.

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Ihor Shtanko - PeerSpot reviewer
Juniper Engineer at VI-PORT

The VPN feature is quite useful, as well as the IPS. The firewall is very good.

If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus. We need a subscription for such updates. It helps improve our security generally.

The solution can scale.

It is stable and reliable.

It is reasonably priced.

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Lukas Harkabus - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Presales Consultant at Trestech s.r.o.

The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features.

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AT
Project manager at computer care company

The most valuable feature is robustness.

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IhorShtanko - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at MUK

The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market.

We typically use the SRX for VPN solutions and it supports next-generation features like antivirus, anti-spam, and IPS effectively.

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Barrett Lamothe - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Hardware Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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. 

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RT
Cloud & IT-Infrastructure Engineer at Bahnhof AB (publ)

You can be very specific with what you can put in the solution. I can have the solution as my management interface. The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made.

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SB
Director & CIO of IT services at Connectivity IT Services Private Limited

The most valuable feature for me over-all is that Juniper is simplified and can still do everything that is necessary to be effective. 

On the SRX box, it has what I call a one model concept for security. I work especially with hybrid environments. With an SRX we have a single management dashboard. We can manage the internal framework easily with the centralized management component. You can work with the threat prevention, you can work with the integration, you can work with traffic management. Another good part about SRX is that you have opportunities for automation. Another thing that is very good is that all the operating systems for all Juniper boxes are the same. You do not work on different operating systems using different boxes. 

It does user validation automatically and has automated threat detection and defense. It does threat analytics, which is integrated. So as a single box, it does not just address security, it does not just handle switching, it does not just work as a firewall. It addresses everything.  

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AR
SAVP & Head of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device.

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DS
Project Manager at MULTILINK COMPUTERS PVT LTD

For the routers, every feature is quite essential and this is a complete router. The firewall applications are scalable.

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AG
Network Engineer & Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The GUI of the solution is quite good. It's also very different from other solutions. On others, if you need to configure anything, you can do it all from the default gateway. Cisco, for example, has a bit of a more difficult process. Juniper's GUI is easier and it makes configuration easier.

Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier.

The speed of the solution is very good.

The initial setup is very easy.

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RL
Senior Network Administrator at Zetec, Inc.

We purchased it for the basic firewall features but added UTM a little bit later.

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AM
Assistant Manager at GBPL

The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data.

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VS
Senior Manager at Allsec Technologies Ltd

The security features and the model collection are the most valuable.

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PZ
Chair of Communication and Computer Networks at Poznan University of Technology

The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies.

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SG
First Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The support is very good.

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LF
Security Governance at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of features, we are using Source NAT. 

The virtualization feature: Sometimes customers are requesting a private connection using mobile data when they are connecting to remote sites. 

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VK
Key Account Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS.

Aside from the updates, I am satisfied with everything this solution has to offer.

I'm satisfied with its routing, firewalling, and web filtering.

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YS
IP Solution Architect /Deputy Manager at HFCL Limited

The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access.

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VS
Senior Manager at Allsec Technologies Ltd

The most valuable features are routing and policy security.

The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control.

The Juniper SRX protects against DDoS attacks. 

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AT
CEO, Member of the Board at beh

I like the routing and firewall features.

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DN
Security Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing.

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SS
Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The dashboard is very helpful. It's extremely useful in terms of putting the necessary policies in place.

I handle the operation part. I'm just putting policies, et cetera, on Juniper. For tasks such as those, it is very easy and it is a comfortable, straightforward process.

The solution has proven to be quite stable.

Technical support has been quite helpful.

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it_user845487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at Kitsap Credit Union
  • I am really hesitate to repeat the Juniper sales line of "One Juniper", simply because within different devices, there are differences in the CLI commands used. This has been due to functional and hardware differences. For the vast majority of the Juniper CLI commands, if you learn them for the SRX, they are the same for the EX and QFX series switches. There is little to no differences between the Junos OS versions
  • The "candidate configuration" and rollback features are real life savers. They are different from what Cisco does. At a Cisco CLI, when you hit enter, the command is live. Using a Juniper CLI, you configure a "candidate configuration", then "commit" it to bring it live. If you do not like it or messed up something, you just "rollback" to the previous configuration. It can all be done in a matter of minutes. This is super handy once you get use to it.
  • Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router.
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DH
Network Architect - Contractor at TEML

I really like the Juniper operating system. It is more of a UNIX based system, more than Cisco, and I really like it. There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration.

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AK
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The GUI is simple to use.

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FG
Senior Network Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm not sure what the most valuable features are. I'm not really that impressed with the technical support. I'm not really that impressed with the product, to be honest with you. Throughput seems to be okay.

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it_user701490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network | Firewall Engineer - Cloud Managed Services Delivery at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Valuable features for us include:

  • Routing: When firewalls can also perform full routing functionality, it helps to save cost on dedicated routing hardware.
  • High Availability (clustering): This is important to ensure service availability in the event of a node failure. These firewalls in HA mode consist of a primary and backup node, and provide redundancy such that if one of the nodes fails, the other node will take over.
  • Deep packet inspection (DPI) capabilities: Juniper SRX firewalls inspect packets as they traverse the firewalls and it goes beyond the traditional five tuples (source IP, destination IP, protocol, source port, and destination port) packet inspection by using the App-ID engine to inspect the protocol to correctly identify applications. It further rate-limits traffic, using the AppQoS features, based on specific types of applications.
  • IPSec VPN: This is crucial because it provides secure site to site connectivity between the DC and remote locations. Traffic traversing the secure link is protected from the prying eyes of unauthorized intruders or the man-in-the-middle.

These features are valuable because they allow smooth operation of the business from a technology standpoint. Again, this is relative.

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HP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution's valuable features are excellent customer service and stability.

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KC
Information Security Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

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.

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LK
Risk Management and Security Governance at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site.

There are also standard security features such as NTP groups and firewalling features and these are also good. 

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SO
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN. We liked that it had additional features and was more modern than the Cisco ASA line.

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it_user738864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure.

CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them.

Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes. 

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AP
System Administrator at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

The solution is mostly stable. 

We get technical support via the reseller, and they are very helpful. 

You can scale the solution. 

The solution works well for larger organizations. 

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ANanonymous - PeerSpot reviewer
Consumer Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • It is highly scalable, stable, and can be easily updated.
  • It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks, DDoS attacks, with Screen Options.
  • When you design your networks, you can put SSL Inspection as a gateway to make the systems secured, like IT systems.
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TM
Senior Network and Security Consultant, JNCIE-SEC#408 at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
  • It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable. 
  • It's very powerful. 
  • It's also a very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM.
  • It's user-friendly with a good UI.
  • It has powerful CLI.
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JG
IToV Implementation Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The Juniper SRX series is easy to use.

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EC
Pre-sales manager at RETO Industrial S.A. de. C.V.

We have explored perimeter security; however, we have not had the chance to group all the security solutions from Juniper. In relation to perimeter firewalls, we have had a good experience. We have been working with Juniper for about 10 years now, and I think it's a good brand in the market in general. In the past, they had some issues involving integration with different products in the portfolio, but currently, I think they have solved that issue. Speaking about our experience with perimeter firewalls, we feel comfortable. 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.

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MF
GCD Network Architecture Manager at Technicolor
SM
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We like the fact that we can easily combine multiple internet links to the office and use them like one link.

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.

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AV
Senior Consultant with 51-200 employees

When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity.

Juniper SRX is pretty fast to configure and make it work.

Once it is configured, it's fine, which is not the case with other firewalls.

Juniper is user-friendly. It works perfectly well.

Upgrades are available.

Juniper SRX has a roll-back feature which is very interesting. As no one is perfect and mistakes do happen, we can roll it back to the previous configuration.

This solution can handle a lot. It's manageable when you know the parameters, the features, and the number of policies of your firewall.

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

IPS is something that I do not find valuable, but the other features are awesome. Firewall IP second router is good, but IPS needs to be worked upon.

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US
Freelancer at a non-tech company with self employed

In terms of valuable features, Juniper firewall filtering is good.

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Pawel Jenner - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps and System Engineer at Netyard

I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever. I can find everything I want, I can commit changes, and I can throwback. I think it has very good features. I like Juniper because of Junos.

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RH
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution works very well in small offices.

The CLI works perfectly.

Technical support has been very helpful overall.

They offer very good administration capabilities.

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PD
Pre-Sales Analyst at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The application control features are excellent.

The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs.

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NM
Technology Services Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The features that are most valuable are the high-speed interfaces and MPLS.

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MA
Data Department Manager at BTC Networks

As a firewall in general, it is good.

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AB
IT System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance.

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PZ
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

This is a flexible platform, it's great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall. The solution has a solid position on the market as a security device. The most important feature in the SRX is the application visibility and control because it gives the user a lot of information about the application in the traffic. Juniper SRX is great as a smaller router for smaller offices.

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JA
Senior Network Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Junos is the best OS for networks. It is very powerful and flexible.

The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime.

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it_user707172 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT System Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The routing feature is most valuable, because SRX is the best enterprise router. SRX has complete MPLS service features with L3VPN, VPLS, EVPN. You can also combine Router and FW in one box, with selective packet filter to bypass flow engine and set traffic to packet mode.

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DS
Chief Information Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN. 

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SS
Senior Manager - Unified Communications, Smart Infrastructure and Service Provider Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution can scale very well.

It's quite a user-friendly solution and I find it to be easy to navigate. 

The initial setup is very easy.

The stability has been quite good. 

Technical support has been quite helpful. 

The pricing has become very reasonable and we find them to be competitive.

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TM
Sr. Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport.

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TA
Network Manager with 1-10 employees

We are using it as a normal type of firewall.

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HY
Works at UNACOOPEC

I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable.

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it_user697011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Form factor: It is small, very nimble, and can be deployed in very small environments which do not have wiring closets.
  • Consolidation: It combines routing, switching, and firewall services in one device.
  • Stable OS: There is a one Junos release training for all the Juniper products, thus minimizes the training needed and enhances interoperability.
  • Open standards: The Juniper OS is based on the open standards and making it very interoperable in the mixed vendor environments.
  • Superior performance: This can be achieved by true separation of control and data plane, hence data plane inefficiencies do not affect the control plane and vice versa.
  • Cloud-enabled device: The SRX300 is cloud-ready and can be used to implement SDSN in micro-environments.
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CM
Network Engineer

We have worked with the solution for a while and therefore have become quite versed in it. We're comfortable with its tech and have a good understanding of how best to use it. 

The initial setup was easy.

In terms of usability, there are good forums on offer and they've got a lot of technical documentation for everything. 

Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly.

The solution has been stable over the years.

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SV
Integrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

What I like the most about Juniper is that they have the same CLI on all routers, switches, and firewalls. If you have worked with any Juniper device, such as a Juniper router, you will be able to work with an SRX, which is really cool. It is a nice experience to work with every device of Juniper, not only firewalls.

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TK
Engineer at icraft

vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX). It has already been tested with virtual acceleration, such as DPDK, SR-IOV, and PCI-Passthrough.

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OS
Linux admin at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable.

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SK
Owner & CEO at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature is the support.

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AF
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Juniper SRX has many good features that suit a variety of customer requirements.

Performance is a strong point.

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MJ
Professional Services (Security) at Business Management Company

The most valuable features in this solution are AppSecure and the IPsec VPN.

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it_user222999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • Traceoptions
  • Commit check
  • Route/IPSEC VPN
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it_user162552 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of section at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fast packet mover, uptime.

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MR
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The IPSec configuration is going well.

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ME
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto.

It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering. Also, defining routing on it is very easy along with netting. The high availability of the application is good. We use the IDS and IPsec VPN features.

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it_user453054 - PeerSpot reviewer
NCP Team Lead Secured Networks at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

One valuable feature is the reliability of the Junos OS. However, we did not make full use of the UTM functionality.

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SS
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.

What I like most about Juniper is that it is a complete configuration.

The user interface is good.

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it_user700152 - PeerSpot reviewer
NOKIA Lead Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Stateful inspection , IPSEC and NAT as per our customers' design. The boxes are used as SecGW, Gi and SGi Firewall, those are the features usually needed in 3G/4G context.

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it_user231273 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
  • Unified OS - free BSD UNIX
  • IDP
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it_user958248 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is the brand itself. From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company. 

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Buyer's Guide
Juniper SRX Series Firewall
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Juniper SRX Series Firewall. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.