We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Juniper vSRX 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."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"It can expand easily."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"We did not have problems with scaling, as we have less than 500 users in our organization."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable features are the security cloud ACP and KPP features."
"The scalability is fine."
"vSRX is easy to deploy to any virtual infrastructure, such as OpenStack, VMware, and even Docker (cSRX)."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The technical support has been good."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The hardware is stable."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"It could use more tutorials."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX 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 Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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