We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The edge security posture has dramatically improved as we can now detect and prevent threats from the public internet."
"The small business hardware device was powerful and easy to set up."
"It is easy to administrate and maintain."
"Check Point offers excellent security."
"I like the Next-Generation Firewall."
"The management in Check Point is exceptional."
"Check Point's rule management helped us simplify access control. At one point, we had more than 1,000 access control policies, and it was challenging to manage them all. We cut it down to 300 policies using Check Point's management features, and we are still working on reducing this further to achieve the best way to manage policies. Its logging and monitoring enable us to trace and investigate suspicious traffic."
"The Check Point firewall features for Next Generation Firewalls are excellent."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"It is a robust SD-WAN solution."
"To me, the analytics feature is one of the most valuable in Meraki MX. I also find that it has good usability as it's cloud-based. Another valuable feature of Meraki MX is that it's simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"Since it has an integrated dashboard for all the products, customers can get complete network analytics regarding what the user is doing, monitoring, and observing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The complexity involved in the solution's initial setup phase and deployment process is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"The web UI for VSX could be better."
"Timely updates to security databases, firmware, and software are crucial for addressing new threats."
"When installed on Windows, the system with low storage space slows down."
"We would like to see constant improvement in anti-malware functionality and anti-threat protection."
"Check Point NGFW could improve by introducing machine learning and more modeling dividing the way they manage the ports. However, they have evolved over the last year."
"VMware is not supported by the platform."
"It can be expensive, especially for small businesses."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"Meraki has some hidden features and information that is only privy to their engineers. If that information became available to us, then it would improve our ease of management, and we would be able to make certain adjustments instead of having to go to them."
"Meraki tech support staff have a lot more visibility into your network than you do, which is frustrating at times. I understand the approach is to keep the dashboard easier to understand. This will frustrate more advanced users at times."
"They're very complacent and I find the rule set to be a little arcane."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 103 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 20 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Meraki MX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Robust control and security that enables a comprehensive application management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Great solution that can manage multiple devices (security, switches, APs, Cameras) with a single pane of glass". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Sophos XGS. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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