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Juniper SRX

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What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

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What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

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A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

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Product Details

What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall and web security gateway. It can be deployed on-premises, as well as virtually for smaller use cases, and is optimized for enterprise-level use. Each of the SRX line are based on the Junos OS, which enables three-in-one routing, switching, and security. The features of a given product in the line are purpose-built to the scope of the business needs. These features start with base next-generation firewall (NGFW) and Unified Threat Management (UTM) capabilities. From there, the offerings scale up to include additional scalability and customizability, as well as Advanced Threat Protection and SSL inspection.

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Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

Reviewers rate Policy-based Controls and VPN and High Availability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Juniper SRX are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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SRX Review

Rating: 3 out of 10
July 12, 2016
Vetted Review
Juniper SRX
1 year of experience
We have multiple clients that are utilizing Juniper SRXs that we administer, some of which are used for specific depts/uses some of which are for an entire Branch. The business problems that this addresses is perimeter security, allowing you to block traffic based off IP and port.
  • These will route your traffic well and support most all major routing protocols.
  • VPN Termination is straightforward compared to some competitors.
  • The commit feature on the SRX puts it way ahead in the ability to roll back changes in case of an error/unplanned consequence.
Cons
  • This is personal preference, but I strongly dislike the XML format that is displayed if you do not use the display set option.
  • Commands to do some simple operations are much longer/more cumbersome compared to some of its main counterparts.
  • The lack of application detection is a big knock on these, we ended up replacing the one in my office with a next-gen firewall to give us greater control.
I think if you're using it internally, maybe for segregation in the datacenter, this could excel if you're not worrying about application filtering. The firewalling policies are little more cumbersome to configure but are more robust than a basic ACL.
  • If you were using this for internal firewalling for traffic you "trust" this could provide a positive impact on your infrastructure.
  • For a perimeter firewall I am not impressed with lack of a lot of current next gen technologies (at least on the models I have used).
  • The return on investment can be very good in the right situation. The low cost vs competitors offers great ROI.
The SRX Stacks up well to the ASA and Sonic wall but I feel the features provided by FortiGate/Palo Alto and Checkpoint far exceed that of the competitors.
Palo Alto Networks PA-3000 Series, Check Point 13000 Appliances, Fortinet FortiGate

SRX: A very versitile Router/Firewall Box

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2021
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
2 years of experience
The Juniper SRX is a very capable firewall & router. It is a versatile appliance that can fit into many designs, it can be placed as an Internet GW, as a DC firewall, as a DMZ Firewall, as a North-South Firewall & Router, as an edge router/firewall. It mainly addresses the need for a L3 feature rich device (VRFs, BGP, GRE...) as well as security features (Security, IPSEC, IPS, URL Filtering, ...).

The combination of routing instances, support for multiple tunneling (Route Based IPSEC, Policy Based IPSEC, GRE, ...) with the advanced BGP features makes the vSRX perfect for an edge device in your DC or Cloud design.

The boxes can be physical or virtual and support active/standby configuration for high availability config.
  • 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
Cons
  • The GUI is pretty basic and need some enhancements
Juniper vSRX is an excellent edge gateway device. The combination of Tunneling protocols supported and the advanced routing & security features makes it perfect for this kind of deployment. It is available in physical, virtual appliances as well as support on multiple clouds so you can have the same box be your edge gateway in multiple environments for consistency.

It can also work as a Internet Gateway, DMZ Firewall/Router and it would function just fine.

While it can also work as a DC firewall (North-South), the poor GUI will make it harder in the day to day administration for the multiple policies in a DC.
  • Edge Device/Tunnel Termination
  • Routing (eBGP)
  • Zone Based Firewall
  • L3 Gateway
  • DHCP Server/Relay
Firewall (11)
70.9090909090909%
7.1
Identification Technologies
60%
6.0
Visualization Tools
50%
5.0
Content Inspection
70%
7.0
Policy-based Controls
70%
7.0
Active Directory and LDAP
70%
7.0
Firewall Management Console
50%
5.0
Reporting and Logging
70%
7.0
VPN
90%
9.0
High Availability
90%
9.0
Stateful Inspection
90%
9.0
Proxy Server
70%
7.0
  • Solid Return of investment as an edge gateway appliance
  • Very versatile appliance that supports multiple deployment scenarios and configuration. one ha/pair can serve multiple functions using Routing Instances.
  • Great support by the vendor, community and online resources
  • it is not hard to find people with Juniper experience and there is training courses and resources that can help anyone with networking experience pick it up and be able to administrate and configure the box.
The juniper is very versatile router/firewall box. it is an excellent router/edge device with zone based firewall.

The PaloAlto and the Fortinet have better GUIs and similar firewall featureset but they are not as flexible routers.

The Cisco CSR1kv is the only box that I would rank similar or higher to the Juniper SRX as it is as versatile as a router and supports the same security feature-set as the Juniper but it has better support and Cisco IOS is more widely adopted by the industry.
VMware NSX, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware HCX (CloudVelox), Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 10, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
5 years of experience
Juniper SRX is used as Network Firewall, which is responsible for securing the workload behind it. It addresses Network Security within the organization, limits the access of the organization's internal network, and secures the enterprise network from threats and from malicious users. Juniper SRX also helped send the traffic to the Internet with the help of Network Address Translation.
  • Network Address Translation.
  • Securing the Enterprise Workload.
  • Enterprise VPN Connectivity.
Cons
  • Antivirus Features can be more advanced.
  • Antispam Filtering features have room for improvement.
  • Cloud Capabilities.
Juniper SRX is well suited for a Service Provider Environment where a high volume of traffic has to pass through the firewall; SRX handles that really well. SRX Network Address Translation (NAT) capabilities are very seamless. SRX also does pretty well in supporting VPN architecture. SRX is less suitable for a typical enterprise environment where multiple capabilities are needed in a single product.
  • IPSec VPN.
  • Network Address Translation.
  • Security Policies.
Firewall (11)
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8.7
Identification Technologies
90%
9.0
Visualization Tools
70%
7.0
Content Inspection
80%
8.0
Policy-based Controls
100%
10.0
Active Directory and LDAP
80%
8.0
Firewall Management Console
70%
7.0
Reporting and Logging
80%
8.0
VPN
100%
10.0
High Availability
100%
10.0
Stateful Inspection
100%
10.0
Proxy Server
90%
9.0
  • It really helped secure a big service provider environment.
  • It handles the traffic pretty well.
  • It helps in the seamless implementation of Firewall policies.
Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.
Most of the teams are the application teams, hosting their application environment on prem, and connects via Juniper SRX to external partners or toward the internet. These application team also securing their environment via Juniper SRX firewall.
Networking team is the admin team who manages the firewall.
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Network Security skills are required for supporting the Juniper SRX. Day to day work is manage the firewall faults, as well as changes in firewall configuration as per the application requirement, such as to allow to deny the traffic.
  • Securing the applications.
  • Establishing the connectivity with partner networks.
  • On Prem to Cloud Connectivity.
  • SRX is being used to handle of lot of NAT connections, instead of using the dedicated NATing devices.
  • SRX is used as external point for any Internet traffic to hit the Internal network.
  • Enabling the features such as making it as the proxy server.
  • Utilizing the Decryption capabilities.
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