We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It is a safe product."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"Easy to deploy with a simple configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"Meraki makes it easy to be secure and know where the holes are to fix them. We have been fixing anything that we have ever found for 20 years. We keep up-to-date with firmware upgrades. We just try to stay on top of everything for security, like maintaining updates and getting rid of old systems. I feel like we're on top of it."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"We have been having a problem with the VPN. When the energy goes down and is back again, the VPN link doesn't get established. We have to manually turn off the modems and other pieces of equipment and manually establish the VPN. It has been around one month since we have been having this problem, and we don't have enough support from Meraki to solve the problem."
"I need more UTM protection security features."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if the different services, including the SIEM SOC and endpoint detection and response (EDR) were integrated into one, so that I don't have to go to different vendors for different services."
Earn 20 points
Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense.
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