Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs Stormshield Network Security comparison

Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Stormshield Network Security

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Fortinet FortiGate

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiGate is 24.9%, down from 36.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Juniper SRX Series Firewall is 7.1%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stormshield Network Security is 3.7%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Unified Threat Management (UTM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiGate	24.9%
Juniper SRX Series Firewall	7.1%
Stormshield Network Security	3.7%
Other	64.3%

Unified Threat Management (UTM)

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Mageshwaran S

Solution Architect at airtel

Enables customers to manage security effortlessly with intuitive features and easy integration

In terms of improvements for Fortinet FortiGate, they could offer evaluation licenses, as compared to Meraki, which provides a 90-day evaluation. In Fortinet FortiGate, they do not provide standard evaluation licenses; instead, we need to request them from the OEM through the account manager for POCs. If we want to conduct a demo, we need to work with real hardware. In comparison to Cisco, we have DCloud, which helps with providing demos to customers, but in Meraki, I need to reach out to them, book a lab, and they need to provide all the hardware. I need remote access and L3 engineers to program it; only then can I offer a real-time demo to the customer.

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Chinedu Onwurah

Global Juniper Presales Engineer at Westcon-Comstor

Robust security measures and cost-effectiveness meet diverse industry needs

The biggest benefit of Juniper SRX Series Firewall overall is that it is rugged and cost-effective, offering basic firewall features and additional licensed features as needed. The main challenge I see as a distributor is Juniper's rating in the Gartner report, where Juniper is not a leader in enterprise security, which often influences customer conversations. Most customers want to check the Gartner report before they engage, making it challenging to sell Juniper security. With my extensive experience with the Juniper SRX Series Firewall, the robustness of the SD-Cloud or Security Director interface and overall functionality needs to be improved to compete with leading firewall solutions.

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Zsolt Jónás

System Administrator at NaxoNet

Advanced GUI and layered security have supported compliance and simplified intrusion prevention

I haven't had a task that I couldn't solve with Stormshield Network Security. The active-active high availability solution would be beneficial because currently, if you build a high availability solution with Stormshield Network Security, you have a main device and another one is a backup device. The HA can switch between them, but it would be good to have a master-master solution, not just a master-slave one. I could set a URL that I can call to update the DNS record. Currently, Stormshield Network Security devices support DynDNS, which is not a usual feature request from a server environment. I have my own solution instead of DynDNS because I don't prefer it, so I have my own service for that. However, the GUI does not support using a custom service instead of DynDNS. I had to solve it in the console on Stormshield Network Security device, but it would be much better if it was reachable on the GUI. I had to figure out a trick for the IPsec configuration. In the IPsec config, we have to provide the remote side's IP address, but it's always changing. This means that an office, for example a company that has an office but without a fixed IP address, cannot be used with IPsec VPN.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The reporting on employee behavior and the prevention of new viruses are essential features."

"Fortinet FortiGate has a very simple configuration, is easy to set up, and includes SD-WAN features at no additional cost."

"Overall, it’s a good solution, and I would recommend it to others."

"Since deploying FortiGate 3401E clusters, we have observed: Dramatic Reduction in Risk Exposure—blocked peer-to-peer and unauthorized applications (e.g., BitTorrent) at the perimeter and east-west segments, eliminating a major source of malware and bandwidth abuse."

"The stability is great; there are no issues with crashing or freezing, and there are no bugs or glitches."

"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"

"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."

"The product offers very good security."

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"Juniper SRX Series Firewall is a stable solution."

"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."

"Our customer decided to switch from Cisco to Juniper for their security deployment."

"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."

"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."

"Our main purpose for using the Juniper security solution is because we are also using Cisco routers, switches etc. and we wanted unity in the OEM products so that we can maintain all the products in NMS."

"It's a reliable firewall and very stable, for both the hardware and applications it is stable."

"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."

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"I feel we have more options with the Stormshield firewall and new features that we haven't previously had."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its dashboard, which helps you manage different aspects of a single page. The intrusion detection system helps our organization by automatically detecting and responding to potential threats. It operates similarly to Darktrace, which detects and responds automatically based on the security rules you apply. Initially, you configure everything to block, and then you can whitelist specific items as needed."

"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."

"This solution is quick and easy to configure."

"A very robust product."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its dashboard, which helps you manage different aspects of a single page."

"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."

"The features I find most valuable is the backup inspection, the filtering, and the load balancing, and I am also impressed by the antivirus feature that gives us two controls over the viruses - one is from the parameter and one on the endpoint."

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Cons

"Technical support is not helpful."

"Fortinet FortiGate SWG should be localised to specific regions to comply with local data privacy regulations because of the data privacy rules in the countries. In the Middle East, data organisation and KFA requirements are stringent."

"Security level could be increased."

"In an incident, after a restart, Fortinet FortiGate did not connect to FortiGuard servers. Due to that reason, on the customer end, all websites got blocked. I don't know why this happened. The firewall of a bank in Sri Lanka rebooted yesterday, and after that, FortiGuard servers did not connect properly, blocking all customer environment websites."

"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."

"One of the weaknesses of the solution is something we noticed, especially after comparing the tool with SD-WAN features, since, unfortunately, in a massive scale size environment, the solution is not good. I"

"The vendors offer models with different levels of productivity of the product to its users, which is not possible in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). It lacks integration options."

"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."

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"The solution doesn't have scalability due to the fact that it is a fixed WAN and therefore it's limited to its hardware."

"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."

"Juniper's product updates are extremely slow, and competitors are rapidly keeping up."

"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."

"The user interface and the GUI need improvement."

"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."

"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."

"We are leaving Juniper now as their focus on security seems to have dropped."

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"Being more cost effective. I went with a pair of Watchguard M300 recently when buying a new firewall cluster for our own use because it was way cheaper than NetASQ/Stormshield N700 while being faster, and it offers true multi-master firewall clustering if needed."

"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension."

"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."

"This is not a next-generation firewall."

"An application firewall like other next generation firewalls have."

"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."

"Support is always an issue because they're constantly busy."

"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate pricing to be about four or five out of ten, it is reasonable."

"It could be more competitive and cost-effective."

"It is more affordable than Check Point and Palo Alto. Another thing is that all the features and the OS remain the same irrespective of the size of the device. Pricing-wise, Fortinet typically provides one-year support with the firewall appliance. There is also an option for three years which is how their licensing works."

"Fortinet has more device options that are affordable for small businesses than Palo Alto, and its enterprise-level models are also cheaper. Palo Alto also has a separate license for VPN connections and SD-WAN, but FortiGate offers these features standard."

"The platform offers a reasonable price point compared to its competitors."

"The license for Fortinet FortiGate is affordable in my country."

"The price of FortiGate is good."

"If the customer is looking for SD-WAN, it comes free with FortiGate."

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"This is a cost-effective solution because the price is very reasonable, and some of the features are available at no extra cost."

"Pricing is very good, not expensive."

"There is value for money. It offers a good solution at a good price. The price is normal for such a product."

"It is not that expensive."

"In my opinion, the Juniper SRX Series Firewall is cheaper than other products."

"The price of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall could improve. The price is always a challenge in the market."

"Its price is comparable to the competition."

"In general, their price definitely couldn't be cheaper."

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"We chose Stormshield for its price, as the Azure firewall was too expensive."

"We bought a three-year license, and we renew it whenever it expires. The price could be better. It's always very expensive."

"The pricing could be better."

"The SN200 series costs between $500 USD and $600 USD per year, whereas the SN700 series costs approximately $1,000 annually."

"I think the price is good."

"The price of this solution and the price of support are ok."

"For mid-sized companies, they sell their appliances for good prices."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Construction Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	370
Midsize Enterprise	138
Large Enterprise	195

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	47
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	2

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Stormshield Network Security

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Also Known As

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall

Juniper SRX

NETASQ Firewalls

Overview

Fortinet FortiGate is a versatile network security tool offering features like VPN, firewall, web filtering, intrusion prevention, and scalability. It is known for its performance and integration with other Fortinet products, making it a preferred choice for robust cybersecurity.

Fortinet FortiGate stands out as a comprehensive cybersecurity solution with strong performance and ease of configuration. It delivers unified threat management, integrating features such as dynamic routing, SD-WAN support, and centralized management. Despite its strengths, improvements in the web interface's stability, pricing structures, and reporting capabilities are needed. Users seek better integration with third-party tools and automation advancements to enhance the experience further. These enhancements, alongside improvements in bandwidth management and the reduction of licensing costs, are points of interest for users looking to capitalize on FortiGate's extensive capabilities.

What are Fortinet FortiGate's key features?

VPN: Ensures secure remote connections.
Firewall: Protects against unauthorized access.
Web Filtering: Blocks malicious sites and content.
Application Control: Manages and controls applications.
Intrusion Prevention: Detects and prevents vulnerabilities.
SSL Inspection: Enhances security by inspecting encrypted traffic.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Fortinet FortiGate?

Affordability: Offers cost-effective security solutions.
Reliability: Known for consistent and stable performance.
Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Fortinet products.
Comprehensive Protection: Provides broad threat protection capabilities.

Fortinet FortiGate is widely implemented across industries as a primary firewall system for securing internet gateways and safeguarding data centers. It supports businesses in achieving SD-WAN integration and enhances cybersecurity by providing essential features like antivirus, web filtering, and application control. Enterprises utilize FortiGate for securing remote connections and ensuring compliance with security standards, making it adaptable for different network sizes and industries.

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Juniper SRX Series Firewall delivers high-speed performance and robust security services, offering seamless integration with third-party products and a user-friendly experience through its unified OS.

Juniper SRX Series Firewall excels in delivering stability, robust security, and high-speed performance. Known for its reliable routing and firewall capabilities, it ensures secure connectivity with IPsec VPN and offers a powerful CLI for configuration. High availability and centralized management enhance efficiency, while automation supports seamless operations. Despite these strengths, some users find its GUI outdated and integration with other systems challenging. There is room for improvement in scalability and intuitive configuration, while pricing and customer support need enhancements to compete with market leaders like Cisco and Fortinet.

What are the top features of Juniper SRX Series Firewall?

High-Speed Performance: Ensures fast and efficient network operations.
Robust Security Services: Provides comprehensive protection against threats.
Routing Capabilities: Delivers reliable and flexible network routing.
Ease of Integration: Supports connection with third-party products.
IPsec VPN: Offers secure connectivity for remote access.
Powerful CLI: Facilitates detailed and customized configurations.
High Availability: Guarantees continuous operation of network services.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Security: Offers strong defenses against cyber threats.
Operational Efficiency: Increases productivity through centralized management and automation.
Simplified User Experience: Reduces training time with a unified OS.
Flexible Deployment: Provides versatility for on-premises and cloud-based applications.

Juniper SRX Series Firewall finds application in sectors like finance, education, and telecommunications, focusing on site-to-site VPNs, remote work protection, and perimeter defense. It secures data centers and internal networks, provides network traffic encryption, and supports high-availability configurations and routing capabilities in both on-premises and cloud-integrated settings.

Juniper

Stormshield Network Security offers comprehensive protection with features like backup inspection, scalable interface, and load balancing, suitable for network security management.

Stormshield Network Security is designed for organizations requiring reliable IT infrastructure protection, providing firewall capabilities, intrusion detection, and application control. Users find VPN support, URL filtering, and UTM functions beneficial for network management. Models like SN200 and SN910 are used globally in clustered configurations, addressing different demands. Challenges include pricing, interface friendliness, filtering configurations, and technical support.

What are the key features of Stormshield Network Security?

Backup Inspection: Enhances reliability and recovery options.
Antivirus Controls: Provides robust virus protection.
Intrusion Detection: Alerts on potential threats.
Load Balancing: Distributes network traffic efficiently.
URL Filtering: Blocks malicious websites for safe browsing.

What benefits should users seek in reviews?

Scalability: Adapts to each organization's growing needs.
Reliability: Supports clustered configurations for uptime.
Management Ease: Intuitive dashboard aids network oversight.
Performance: High throughput with efficient clustering.

Stormshield Network Security is widely implemented in industries needing IT infrastructure protection, like finance or healthcare. Organizations deploy it in data centers or branch offices, benefiting from features ensuring safety and performance. The tool supports environments that demand high security levels and robust network monitoring.

Stormshield

Sample Customers

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP, Oracle, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Vodafone, Orange, BT Group, Telstra, Deutsche Telekom, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, NTT Communications, Tata Communications, SoftBank, China Mobile, Singtel, Telus, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telkom Indonesia, Telkom South Africa, Telmex, Telia Company, Telkom Kenya

7-Eleven, AARNet Pty Ltd, Allegro Networks, alltours GmbH, Apollo Hotel Papendrecht, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Atlantech Online, Availity, Bajaj Capital, Baloise Insurance, BancABC, BAS Group, Black Lotus, Blue Box, Borealis, Carilion Clinic, Catholic Health System, CATV, Champlain College, Chinas Ministry of Railways, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Cloud Dynamics, CloudSeeds, Cloudwatt, CODONiS, Colt Technology Services, Cork Internet Exchange, CSS Versicherung AG, CyrusOne, Danish Crown, Deloitte Belgium, Department of Energy, Divona Telecom, DQE Communications, DreamHost, European Government Agency, Expedient, Financial Market Information Services Provider, Fluidata, Fonality, Fox Sports, Global Financial Institution, Global Investment Bank, Global Investment Company, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Goethe University, HEAnet, High Performance Networks Inc., Hillenbrand

ACESUR group, Ministry of Education Oman, Anios Laboratories, Zain, DLM Location

Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Stormshield Network Security