We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-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."It is very flexible to use."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"The user interface is good."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"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."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"The tool needs to improve integration with more products from other vendors. I would like the product to add threat intelligence features as well."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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