We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"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."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"The most effective features for threat prevention are application-based prevention and WildFire. These features cover various threats, such as ransomware, malware, etc. They provide real-time visibility. By applying appropriate policies, threats can be blocked."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"Juniper needs to focus more on their perimeter firewalls."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"As a networking person, I don't really have any major issues with this device. Based on my experience of using it in a cluster, it could be more stable. I had an incident when one of the SRXs in a cluster couldn't learn ARP. It is a good solution, but firewalls don't seem to be an area of development for Juniper. They are focusing on data centers, routers, and switches, not firewalls."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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