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Cisco Firepower 4100 Series vs Juniper SRX

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
15 Ratings
Juniper SRX
28 Ratings

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

15 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 100

Based on 15 reviews and ratings

Juniper SRX

28 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 28 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • Juniper SRX ranks higher in 1 feature set: Firewall

Firewall

7.1

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

71%
7.8

Juniper SRX

78%
Juniper SRX ranks higher in 8/11 features
Juniper SRX ranks higher in 8/11 features

Identification Technologies

7.1
71%
2 Ratings
7.2
72%
2 Ratings

Visualization Tools

5.7
57%
2 Ratings
5.1
51%
2 Ratings

Content Inspection

8.1
81%
2 Ratings
8.3
83%
3 Ratings

Policy-based Controls

6.7
67%
2 Ratings
8.3
83%
3 Ratings

Active Directory and LDAP

6.2
62%
2 Ratings
7.1
71%
2 Ratings

Firewall Management Console

8.6
86%
2 Ratings
6.4
64%
4 Ratings

Reporting and Logging

4.8
48%
2 Ratings
7.9
79%
4 Ratings

VPN

8.5
85%
2 Ratings
9.4
94%
3 Ratings

High Availability

9.5
95%
2 Ratings
9.4
94%
4 Ratings

Stateful Inspection

7.1
71%
2 Ratings
9.0
90%
3 Ratings

Proxy Server

6.2
62%
2 Ratings
7.1
71%
2 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Juniper SRX is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.5

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

85%
2 Ratings
9.4

Juniper SRX

94%
7 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1

Juniper SRX

91%
1 Rating

Support Rating

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

N/A
0 Ratings
6.4

Juniper SRX

64%
6 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

When we are asked by local partners which security equipment we use we always recommend our Cisco security products. The Firepower firewall is no exception and we can easily recommend this to others who need a fast, secure, and well built system that integrates well with all your existing hardware and software.

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Juniper SRX

SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.

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Pros

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

  • Application Control.
  • URL Filtering.
  • Intrusion Prevention.

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Kelvin Goh | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Juniper SRX

  • Edge Device (Tunneling & Routing)
  • Routing Instances
  • Zone Based Firewall
  • L3 Gateway/Vlan termination
  • DHCP Server & DHCP Relay
  • Good support community & Good available documentation
  • Good support by the Vendor

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Cons

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

  • Initial install and configuration can be complex.
  • May need to learn the new interface if coming from ASA.
  • Buggy web interface can at time cause issues.

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Juniper SRX

  • My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.

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Pricing Details

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0 per appliance

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Editions & Modules

Edition
Firepower 410050,000-250,0001
  1. per appliance
Additional Pricing Details
—

Juniper SRX

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Juniper SRX Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

Support Rating

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

No score
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Juniper SRX

Juniper SRX 6.4
Based on 6 answers
This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series deployment is straightforward and easy to implement. It is also can support high availability and able to achieve redundancy. Besides, firmware upgrade is quite simple and the process does not take much effort as the upgrade will be automatically done by itself. Cisco Firepower 4100 Series is also very cost effective compared with other similar ranges of firewalls.

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Kelvin Goh | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Juniper SRX

The comparison between the different firewalls is really down to preference and price at this point. The SRX is a solid device, and we have not seen a hardware failure to date. The Juniper support I have had is stellar and has helped me out with larger more complex scenario development.

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Eric Stephenson | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

  • Positive impact would be our increased security network wide.
  • Another positive would be the increased processing power, saving us time and [from] needing more equipment.
  • A negative impact would be the increased need for having to learn a new interface.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Juniper SRX

  • Although I'm not a part of the budgeting process, I do know that by using Juniper SRXs, we were able to get the products we needed with much less issues and justifications as other product we've purchased in the past.

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Robert Beck | TrustRadius Reviewer
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