We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing."
"The security is very good."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"It's easily scalable."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"Technical support is good. They quickly respond, and they even have local help here. They can actually give you an answer very quickly."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"I think they should bring back remote VPN for users."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"The graphical user interface or the GUI could be better. Beginners can use some devices with the GUI, but some security devices are configured using CLI. It would also be better if it had its own Intrusion Protection Service and Intrusion Detection Service on the server."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"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 capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"The reporting is lacking."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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