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."Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"A stable and solid solution for protection from external threats and for VPN connections."
"The IPS, as well as the malware features, are the two things that we use the most and they're very valuable."
"Strong in NAT and access-lists."
"We definitely feel more secure. We have more control over things going in and out of our network."
"The return on investment is not going to be restricted to just the box... Now, these genres have been expanded to cyber, to third-party integrations, having integrated logging, having integrated micro and macro segmentations. The scope has been widened, so the ROI, eventually, has multiplied."
"I think Cisco ASA Firewall is the most stable firewall solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Firewall is its ease of configuration and that it's scalable for firewalls and VPNs."
"AnyConnect has been very helpful, along with the ability to use LDAP for authentication."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"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."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Its price could be better."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"There are some limitations with SSL. Regarding the security assessment for the ISO 27000 standard, there are certain features that Cisco needs to scale up. Not all products support it, so you need to be slightly careful, especially on the site track."
"Migration with other appliances is not easy. It has to be done manually, and this takes a long time."
"I would like the ability to drill down into certain reports because currently, that cannot be done."
"If they want to add better features to the current Cisco ASA, they can start by increasing the encryption. That is the only thing they need to improve."
"The virtual firewalls don't work very well with Cisco AnyConnect."
"I don't have to see all the object groups that have been created on that firewall. That's just something that I would really appreciate on the CLA, even though it already exists on the GUI."
"I think they need to review their whole UI because it feels like it was created by a whole bunch of different teams of developers who didn't fully talk to each other. The net policy screen is just a mess. It should look like the firewall policy screen, and they should both act the same, but they don't. I feel like it's two different buildings or programming, who don't talk to each other, and that really annoys me."
"We use the FTD management platform for the boxes. The GUI that manages multiple Firepower boxes could be improved so that the user experience is better."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"he stability could be improved."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th 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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