We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The solution is scalable."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"I like the automatic firmware updates. We use the Active Directory to authenticate VPN users."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"It has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Application management can be improved."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"It is very expensive."
"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."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"We do not have account managers in our region for the solution. Some governments don't use the product since it is attached to the internet."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"I need more UTM protection security features."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, 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 VPN-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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