We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"It is very flexible to use."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The hardware is stable."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The command feature is valuable."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The technical support has been good."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"Mechanically, all firewalls work in a similar fashion, but what makes Palo Alto different is that it also has some of the threat hunt capabilities. It is a little bit better than other vendors."
"The most important part of this solution is its reliability, as it just works without any fancy features."
"It worked fine normally."
"Overall, it is a good solution. It is stable. We use URL filtering, which is useful for blocking undesired URLs."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the robust firewall, which we can also use as a UTM device."
"We standardized on the product and got rid of several other types of firewalls from different vendors."
"The App-ID feature is the coolest feature because you don't need to open a new port. Apps are directly linked to the port. It provides one of the best ways to lock down the additional port switch."
"The application IDs, application controls, URL filtering, visibility, monitoring, and reporting are the most valuable features."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"The biggest downside of Juniper vSRX is its pricing, which may be too high for smaller organizations. While it's a decent solution, the cost may limit its accessibility to smaller customers."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The only problem that I see with the Palo Alto NGFW being an all-in-one appliance is that because of the different features that are being put into a single appliance, the OS tends to be beefier. Over the eight years, we have seen that the number of features or analyses being put into the appliance itself has a tendency to slow down the appliance, especially at the time of bootup. So, any time we are doing maintenance work, the time required for the appliance to boot up and be fully functional again is significantly longer than eight years ago. They could find a way to make this all-in-one appliance faster."
"The SD-WAN product is fairly new. They could probably improve that in terms of customizing it and making the configuration a little bit easier."
"The whole performance takes a long time. It takes a long time to configure."
"The only downside of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, in my opinion, is the relatively higher price compared to Cisco FortiGate. This is especially noticeable when deploying basic configurations and considering the cost of licenses."
"The only area I can see for improvement is that Palo Alto should do more marketing."
"The user interface is probably not as slick as it could be."
"The areas that need to improve are network protection and user identification."
"When you delete and add a new rule, because of the one hundred rule limit, if the new rule has an ID that is greater than one hundred, even though you have fewer than that, it will not work."
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Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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