Fortinet is positioned as the leading affordable alternative to Palo Alto Networks for enterprise firewalls, with users praising its GUI-first design and capable management tools like FortiManager.

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        "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1wqsbsk/comment/pc709qt/",
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        "author": "ZeniChan",
        "excerpt": "I've installed and managed SRX's as the primary firewalls for organizations. They do work as enterprise firewalls and have some advantages over more mainstream firewall offerings. SRX's are different than most in that it's an excellent router that also acts as a firewall. Also, as a basic firewall they don't need licensing to work and they do HA clustering for free. They are pretty ideal for thing",
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        "author": "Gesha24",
        "excerpt": "The disclosure is the same because the question is the same - \"what's the best firewall?\" without any specifics. And without any specifics, you get the same generic answer.\n\n Add some more specifics - and you can have some different results. Though honestly I can't think of any reason to use SRX over other vendors. Maybe if I had some very messed up design where I had to do advanced routing on my",
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        "excerpt": "We used SRX for like 10+ years but when it came time to replace them (~8 years ago now) and start using \"NGFW\" features, all of that just felt tacked on to SRX in different ways over time. We evaluated all 4 you mentioned at the time and Palo and Fortinet were designed with all of that in mind from day one, so it all just worked better and it easier to maintain. We also had significant issues with",
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        "author": "IceCreamPoint",
        "excerpt": "go enable security features on the srx’s with even a medium amount of traffic and come back to us telling us you made a mistake.\n\n They’re great routers, terrible firewalls. Everything is a chore to configure on it firewall wise, last I configured a remote access VPN for juniper secure connect it was not available on Linux and that was a pain in the a$$ for a project where the entire organisation",
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        "excerpt": "SRXs are used mostly as routers in Carrier and Telco, that's why you see them there. They explicitly are not doing many of the advanced security features of a true NGFW, so SRXs are easier to automate because it was built with CLI being the primary management mechanism. They bolted on a GUI later when they were getting crushed by Fortinet and Palo's GUI first. As a router, I would use SRX but not",
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        "author": "veritropism",
        "excerpt": "Adding to what others said, some history...\n\n The top engineering lead for juniper firewalls realized that with better hardware, they could start doing amazing things for the time - checkpoint had started a few NGFW-like initiatives and he saw a huge leap forward was possible.\n\n Juniper refused to fund something that would obsolete thier existing investment in the current firewalls.  He quit, and",
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        "author": "GodlessThoughts",
        "excerpt": "Let’s clear up some of the dogmatic takes in this thread.\n\n The SRX is the most capable router of any major firewall vendor having features for free that most license at best or at worst don’t even offer. Things like carrier grade NAT are built right in to the base offering.\n\n The SRX has some bleeding edge features that lend themselves well modern data center security. Namely, multinode high avai",
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        "author": "ncgbulldog1980",
        "excerpt": "I as someone that just replaced a palo with cisco FTD, Dont you will regret it",
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    "post_text": "Whenever the conversation on enterprise firewalls comes up on this group, I've noticed the discourse is always incredibly predictable:\n\n\"Palo Alto if you can afford it, Fortinet if you cannot. Honorable mention: Cisco FTD but we all hate those\"\n\nJuniper SRX? Never even mentioned in these topics.\n\nI'm wondering why, though? What am I missing, or rather what are SRX missing to not be a major contender for enterprise NGFW consideration? It looks like SRX is more heavily used in Carrier & Telco networks versus enterprise networks.\n\nDo you consider SRX a true \"NGFW\" firewall? Is it really as simple as \"Palo and Fortinet have a nice GUI to manage and audit the security policy, and Juniper doesn't?\"",
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