We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The product offers very good security."
"The hardware is stable."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"It has excellent scalability."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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