We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The solution has helped our organization secure our network and connect remote sites."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall has a simple configuration."
"The most valuable features we found are the SD-WAN, FortiGate SD-WAN, and the standard UTM protection, among others."
"I found the upgrades valuable."
"I like the common administration and the possibility of adding Fortinet defense systems."
"Overall, I am satisfied with the product."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's design is good...I am very impressed with the product's stability."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"The scalability is fine."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"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."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The product has to be upgraded every few weeks."
"When considering the policy of the vendors, they do not offer much of a discount policy, making the licensing model an area that needs improvement."
"One area for improvement is the IPS engine."
"The solution needs to integrate VPN features."
"FortiGate NGFW can improve technical support. The engineer who answers the technical support call, email, or phone call, whatever the medium may be. The response time is very bad."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's performance and threat intelligence could be improved."
"The solution's stability should be improved because it is extremely unstable."
"I would like to have SD-WAN as a part of the Next Generation Firewall. It would enhance high availability."
"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."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The Juniper SRX product needs to improve in terms of innovation."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas 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. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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