We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure 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."The payment function for applications is good."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"I have not contacted technical support. There is a lot of information on the internet for troubleshooting. All you need to do is use a search engine and you will find the information you are looking for easily."
"Everything is all documented in the file or in the command line script that gets uploaded to the device. It gives us great visibility."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The IPS (In-plane switching) is the most valuable feature."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"We are mostly using it for remote access, so the remote access feature is the most valuable, but all other features are also needed and required. It is also a very straightforward and reliable solution."
"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The technical support has been good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"It is expensive."
"It doesn't have a proper GUI to do troubleshooting, so most people have to rely on the command line."
"On firewall features, Fortinet is better. Cisco needs to become more competitive and add more features or meet Fortinet's offering."
"The virtual firewalls don't work very well with Cisco AnyConnect."
"The solution could offer better control that would allow the ability to restrictions certain features from a website."
"At times the product is sluggish and slow"
"The configuration is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to see an IE version of the solution where it is ruggedized."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"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."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"he stability could be improved."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"It could use more tutorials."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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