We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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."Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"It's easily scalable."
"The user interface is good."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"It is a brilliant product. It is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) system. It has got about 11 security services that take care of your perimeter security. It takes care of any kind of cyber threats that could come in. It takes care of creating VPNs between two SonicWalls instantly and very easily. It has got spyware in it as well as a firewall. It has also got a gateway antivirus and an application firewall that can block things from outside."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The product only has basic features."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"Do not even consider NetExtender - probably one of the most horrific, nightmare grade Java-based VPN clients. We have but all given up trying to make it work reliably."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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