We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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."Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"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 SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"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."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The policy monitoring and allowing different traffic flows are the most useful features for us; regulating which traffic comes in and out."
"The GUI is easy and intuitive."
"I like their management features a lot. Their System Manager server as well the System Manager software make managing them, and tracking changes, very easy and complete."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the FireWall features. The management side of WatchGuard is quite easy because it supports two ways to manage it - by the web and the other one they call WatchGuard systems manager. I used to be familiar with WSM only, but they improved their GUI in the web browser and now it is much easier to do it within the web browser."
"The most effective and helpful features of WatchGuard Firebox, especially when purchased with the full suite of applications, are its bundled applications and subscriptions for comprehensive protection against various threats."
"The solution simplifies my business. Normally, for administration, we are using NetApp System Manager on Window since it's easy to create new policies. In a short amount of time, you can create new policies based on new requirements. For example, in the last few months, many requirements changed due to the coronavirus, adding the use of new services, like Office 365, and eLearning tools, like Zoom."
"It provides us with Layer 2 and Layer 3 security."
"They've done a lot of work with their SD-WAN, which we do use, to have our old internet service with our new internet service. If anything goes down on a particular interface, I can have different rules applied. Most of my users don't even know when our primary internet goes down anymore... I don't have to be here to do anything to switch it to our backup internet or to switch it back."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"They've become quite expensive."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"It would be ideal if the solution could use cloud services to help update signatures or threat prevention systems."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"The solution could cost less. It's a bit expensive right now."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"An area for improvement is that when we use a web administration link, there is no security."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"The performance of the solution's processor needs to be faster."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"The documentation for the System Manager/Dimension configuration, could be a little bit clearer... The use case where you have multiple sites with multiple firewalls, and one site that has the System Manager server and the Dimension server, wasn't really well defined. It took me a little bit of digging to get that to actually work."
"One area for improvement could be making the interface even more user-friendly."
"The next release should have better software and configuration systems that can also be used on Linux."
"I would like to see more tutorials on setting up the Firebox."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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