We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX finishes slightly ahead of Palo Alto Networks WildFire in this comparison. Juniper SRX provides robust enterprise network protection and connectivity and comprehensive performance, is stable, and scales easily. Palo Alto Network WildFire can be challenging for some users to learn. The overall configuration is a bit complex to use.
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The solution is scalable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"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."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"The IPS functionality of Juniper SRX is useful in the telecom industry."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"We use it as a firewall at our head office and branches."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"Stability is never a concern."
"The solution is scalable."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"It needs more available central management."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"The product only has basic features."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 60 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Check Point SandBlast Network and Zscaler Internet Access.
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