We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Zscaler Cloud 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."We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"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."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"One of Juniper vSRX's most valuable features is its integration with safety applications. It keeps the software secure from developers without relying on third-party solutions."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The solution has good features."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"It is a stable solution."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The UI could be improved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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