We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall vs Juniper SRX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Each of them have a good set of features, and the solution you choose will ultimately be dependent on your company’s specific preferences and requirements.
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The solution is stable."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"It is a secure product."
"The content filtering is good."
"The return on investment is not going to be restricted to just the box... Now, these genres have been expanded to cyber, to third-party integrations, having integrated logging, having integrated micro and macro segmentations. The scope has been widened, so the ROI, eventually, has multiplied."
"All the features except IPS are valuable. IPS is not a part of my job."
"We are using the Cisco AnyConnect for our end-user VPN with the ASA."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"Filtering is the best feature."
"It is much better than most of the other firewalls that I have worked with."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"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."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"A memory leakage issue which literally freeze the nodes (we have an HA environment). The issue is still not solved and the only recommendation from Cisco is to reboot the node."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"It integrates with other security products from Cisco, but sometimes, there can be glitches or errors."
"The user interface is too complex for people who are not trained to or certified to engage with the product. The interface should be easier to use."
"I would like to see the inclusion of a protocol that can be used to protect databases."
"Cisco ASA Firewall could improve by adding more advanced features such as web filtering, which is available in the next-generation firewalls. However, the Cisco ASA Firewall I am using could be old and these features have been updated."
"The annual subscription cost is a bit high. They should try to make it comparable to other offerings. We have a number of Chinese products here in Pakistan, which are already, very cheap and have less annual maintenance costs compared to Cisco."
"They need a user-friendly interface that we could easily configure."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"Junos Space should be improved to be on par with FortiGate's solution for managing firewalls and routing."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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