We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series 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."Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"We mostly use the Layer 4 firewall functions: Access rules, NAT, and site-to-site IPsec VPN."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"When compared to Palo Alto, Juniper is a better choice when it comes to the enterprise network and connectivity."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Security policies in combination with zones: It is very easy to organize the security polices in a logical structure."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"I'm told the solution is the fastest, and, so far, I do find that to be the case."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The product only has basic features."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. 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 Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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