We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Juniper SRX Series Firewall receives positive feedback for its user-friendly interface and excellent support. Users appreciate the ease of configuration and the site-to-site VPN functionality. Additionally, the powerful command line is considered a valuable feature. SonicWall TZ offers a broad range of valuable features including unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and content filtering.
Juniper SRX Series Firewall could enhance its capacity, reporting, user interface, features, and support. SonicWall TZ would benefit from improvements in performance, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, pricing, support, and additional features.
Service and Support: Customers have generally been pleased with the customer service and support provided by Juniper SRX Series Firewall. They have found the technical support to be helpful and responsive. SonicWall TZ has received mixed feedback. Some customers have experienced difficulties due to language barriers and delays in support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Juniper SRX Series Firewall can be time-consuming, especially if the environment is complex. Setting up SonicWall TZ is described as effortless and straightforward. Juniper may require familiarity with the Command Line Interface (CLI), whereas SonicWall is user-friendly and ready to use.
Pricing: Some users find SonicWall TZ to be reasonably priced, while others mention it is a bit costly and not affordable. SonicWall TZ incurs additional charges for utilizing cloud management capabilities.
ROI: Juniper SRX Series Firewall provides enhanced security features, dependability, and uptime, making it a valuable and reliable investment. SonicWall TZ effectively prevents attacks and is essential for network security. To achieve better performance, upgrading to newer units is advisable.
Comparison Results: Juniper SRX Series Firewall is the preferred product. It has an easier setup process, a nice interface, and good scalability. It also provides excellent support, quick response times, and valuable features like site-to-site VPN functionality. The pricing for Juniper SRX Series Firewall is considered reasonable and affordable. Juniper offers a more user-friendly experience and better support, making it the preferred choice.
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"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."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"You can scale the solution."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"It is very user-friendly, and there is no problem in using its interface."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"In the future, I would like to see the UI more responsive"
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"Their models for service providers could improve."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
"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."
"In some cases, customers encounter issues related to network interfaces, while others prioritize security concerns."
"An additional feature that I would like to see is reporting that includes metrics to give me more information about the number of viruses that it has actually detected and interrupted."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"Sonic Analyzer could be improved. It's difficult to manage and not very intuitive."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSv. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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