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Based on 28 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Cisco Secure Firewall ranks higher in 1 feature set: Firewall
Firewall

8.6
Cisco Secure Firewall
86%

7.7
Juniper SRX
77%
Cisco Secure Firewall ranks higher in 11/11 features
Cisco Secure Firewall ranks higher in 11/11 features
Identification Technologies

7.9
79%
14 Ratings

7.2
72%
2 Ratings
Visualization Tools

7.7
77%
14 Ratings

5.1
51%
2 Ratings
Content Inspection

9.4
94%
14 Ratings

8.3
83%
3 Ratings
Policy-based Controls

8.8
88%
14 Ratings

8.3
83%
3 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP

7.2
72%
13 Ratings

7.1
71%
2 Ratings
Firewall Management Console

8.9
89%
14 Ratings

6.4
64%
4 Ratings
Reporting and Logging

8.4
84%
14 Ratings

7.9
79%
4 Ratings
VPN

9.4
94%
12 Ratings

9.4
94%
3 Ratings
High Availability

9.9
99%
14 Ratings

9.4
94%
4 Ratings
Stateful Inspection

9.3
93%
14 Ratings

9.0
90%
3 Ratings
Proxy Server

7.2
72%
12 Ratings

7.1
71%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Cisco Secure Firewall is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
- Cisco Secure Firewall and Juniper SRX are tied in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

9.4
Cisco Secure Firewall
94%
14 Ratings

9.4
Juniper SRX
94%
7 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Secure Firewall
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
Juniper SRX
91%
1 Rating
Usability

8.0
Cisco Secure Firewall
80%
1 Rating

Juniper SRX
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating

7.9
Cisco Secure Firewall
79%
6 Ratings

6.4
Juniper SRX
64%
6 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Secure Firewall
If you are already using [a] Cisco product like the Cisco ASA Series and you need more security on layer 7 then you can upgrade with firepower. This is well suited for middle and big organizations. If your company deals with credit card information then you should buy this firewall. It provides you all the features to stop any type of advanced attack on your organization
project lead
DashClicksInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesPros
Cisco Secure Firewall
- Updates with the HA Pair are incredibly easy and automated
- FMC with Firepowers provide a single place to view information about devices and connections
- Tedious policy changes can be staged during the working hours and then deployed in one click after hours

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 201-500 employeesJuniper 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
Cloud Migration Architect
IBMComputer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Cisco Secure Firewall
- The UI in Cisco Firepower formerly Sourcefire) is complicated and entirely redundant. A lot of these features are not useful, and therefore, it can be removed from the main window.
- The interface is very slow, with each operation taking a lot of time. Searching through the logs takes too much time.
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Colorado DenverHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
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.
IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager
Nashville WrapsWholesale, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Cisco Secure Firewall
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Juniper SRX
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall 8.0
Based on 1 answer
It's overall very great, however the Management Console needs updating to fix the slowness of policy and rule deployments.
AVP Network Security Team Lead
East West BankFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
Juniper SRX
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall 7.9
Based on 6 answers
Cisco support is not at all suitable for this product, at least. It takes a long for them to help us with our server issues. A lot of the time, the customer support person keeps on redirecting calls to another person. They need to be well versed with the terminologies of the product they are supporting us with. Support needs a lot of improvement. Cisco Fire Linux OS, the operating system behind Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire), also doesn't receive regular patches. In short, average customer service.
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Colorado DenverHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesAlternatives Considered
Cisco Secure Firewall
pfsence is a very complicated firewall and there is lots of documentation available on Cisco website for help. The configuration is very difficult and less documentation available. Cisco Secure Firewall provides us all the security features in low cost and this is very easy to configure firewall.
Sr Team Leader
Dish TVInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees
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.
Staff System Engineer
CommScopeTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
Cisco Secure Firewall
- This product is great for inspection and normal firewall controls.
- If there's a bug in it, it can take a lot of resource time to chase it and work around it.
- Deciphering which data is useful has taken a bit of time and trimming.
Network Systems Administrator
Johnson County LibraryLibraries, 201-500 employees
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.
Network Engineer
FireEye, IncComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees