We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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 Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"SonicWall provides endpoint security with advanced protection. Moreover, SonicWall includes access points and additional features."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"The technical support is very good."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"The solution can scale."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"The reporting is lacking."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"The capacity can be limiting. We have outgrown its capacity. You can only scale up to a certain extent, depending on the device purchased."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"The product could expand its throughput capacity."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 87 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSa 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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