We performed a comparison between Huawei 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 flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"One of the best things about Huawei NGFW is its ability to integrate Azure solutions. Every year, we can add new features to the firewall. The key advantage is the integration across the entire network, so it doesn't work in isolation. For example, we can manage everything with features like the secret manager or analytic IDs. The solution is straightforward. It can also detect intrusions."
"Performance is a strong point."
"Juniper is one of the most powerful network security solutions while remaining simple to use, set up, and scale."
"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."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution doesn't seem to be very mature. Our networking team says they are experiencing a lot of issues in the firewalls and some routers."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"One issue is integration. Huawei can't detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC). I can get a lot of information about security, but can't automatically input the EP, domain URL, and file hashes I get from Hackersworld into my blocklist."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"The reporting is lacking."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"The visibility/reporting could be better. To see something, you have to export the log to a syslog and then process with another product."
"There are a lot of features that customers do not know about and I think that better documentation would help when it comes to learning how to use the product."
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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