Pros and Cons of Juniper SRX 2025

Name: Juniper SRX Series Firewall
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Description: Juniper SRX Series Firewall

Overview

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.

Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Rating: 8 out of 10

August 10, 2023

Vetted ReviewVerified User

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 ...

Verified user

Engineer

5 years of experience

SRX: A very versitile Router/Firewall Box

Rating: 9 out of 10

April 30, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

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...

Amr Momtaz

Consultant - Information Technology

Cloud Migration Architect

IBM

2 years of experience

Juniper SRX. A Swiss army knife for routing and security.

Rating: 10 out of 10

December 27, 2020

IncentivizedVetted Review

The Juniper platform is one of our core devices for customers through our partner. They have the ability to work in almost any situation we put them into. From basic edge rout...

Eric Stephenson

Engineer - Information Technology

Staff System Engineer

CommScope

4 years of experience

Juniper SRXs are the shizzle!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

January 31, 2020

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

in 2014, our organization did a wholesale forklift of our older network equipment and replaced ALL of it with Juniper gear. We use SRX routers/firewalls/IDP and EX & QFX s...

Verified user

Engineer

5 years of experience

Juniper SRX: When you don't have time to play around!

Rating: 8 out of 10

January 13, 2020

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use the Juniper SRX platform to connect two buildings with metro ethernet between two buildings, including link failover, provide high reliability between sites. Our carrie...

Bear Golightly

Professional - Information Technology

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville Wraps

3 years of experience

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Pricing

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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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No setup fee

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Untangle NG Firewall

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What is Untangle NG Firewall?

Untangle NG Firewall is an open-source firewall and gateway security platform. It offers a free core firewall platform with paid add-ons, and a cloud-based management platform with a variety of deployment options for smaller teams.

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Product Demos

Juniper SRX Chassis Cluster

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Juniper SRX Firewall Security Policy Rules

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Juniper SRX Initial Configuration Get Started Video

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Features

Firewall

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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Avg 8.5

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Identification Technologies
(3) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
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Visualization Tools
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Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
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Content Inspection
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Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
10
Policy-based Controls
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Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
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Active Directory and LDAP
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Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
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Firewall Management Console
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Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
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Reporting and Logging
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Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
10
VPN
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VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
10
High Availability
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Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
10
Stateful Inspection
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Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
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Proxy Server
(3) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

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Product Details

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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 Series Firewall

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Rating: 8 out of 10

August 10, 2023

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Networking Company, 1001-5000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Pros

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.

SRX: A very versitile Router/Firewall Box

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Amr Momtaz

Cloud Migration Architect

IBM (Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

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Pros

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 SRX. A Swiss army knife for routing and security.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 27, 2020

Eric Stephenson

Staff System Engineer

CommScope (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

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Pros

The ease of use for the CLI is a huge benefit. Unlike the Cisco platform, all changes are implemented in a commit statement vs. live on the box.
The devices hit a price point that is very competitive.
Dynamic routing support is a huge win.

Cons

The areas that can improve are met by higher-level platforms within the Juniper portfolio.

Juniper SRX: When you don't have time to play around!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 13, 2020

Bear Golightly

IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager

Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

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Pros

The Juniper SRX platform is easy to set up (out of the box).
The support team responds to tickets quickly and with good solutions.

Cons

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.

Juniper SRXs are the shizzle!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2020

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Pros

One JUNOS is the Juniper mantra, including for the SRXs. While not entirely true, it comes close enough that if you learn some SRX configuration tricks, they will likely work across all of your SRXs.
Out of the box, with no additional license required, you have a NextGen firewall, by default. You can turn off the firewall and have just a plain ole router.

Cons

Technical support is often lacking. By that, I mean that Tier 1 support frequently has to escalate to the next group. I find that most of my support calls don't get resolved until I hit about Tier 3. Plus it takes minimum of 3 days with medium priority issues.
Automation is very flexible, but because there are so many options, it would great to have a road map to perform the most frequent automation tasks.

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