We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"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."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"I've found the security features, such as IDS and the VPN most valuable."
"The deployment is quite easy and fast."
"The product provides good performance and has features comparable to other leading products in the market."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The reports are very basic."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"It should be easier to escalate support tickets."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"Sometimes committing configurations takes a lot of time in Juniper because of the connections, and it could be a little bit faster."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Huawei NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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