"Being able to determine our active users vs inactive users has led us to increased productivity through visibility. Also, if an issue was happening with our throughput, then we wouldn't know without research. Now, notifications are more proactively happening."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"Its Snort 3 IPS has better flexibility as far as being able to write rules. This gives me better granularity."
"The most important features are the intrusion prevention engine and the application visibility and control. The Snort feature in Firepower is also valuable."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Meraki MX offers advanced filtration options, plus it behaves like a router and a firewall at the same time."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"I would like it to have faster deployment times. A typical deployment could take two to three minutes. Sometimes, it depends on the situation. It is better than it was in the past, but it could always use improvement."
"It's mainly the UI and the management parts that need improvement. The most impactful feature when you're using it is the user interface and the user experience."
"The performance should be improved."
"The product line does not address the SMB market as it is supposed to do. Cisco already has an on-premises sandbox solution."
"We cannot have virtual domains, which we can create with FortiGate. This is something they should add in the future. Additionally, there is a connection limit and the FMC could improve."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"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."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"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."
"From the improvement perspective, we need more monitoring capabilities. We want to have full-based access visibility, such as, what is happening when something is trying to reach and it is denying. We cannot see some parts of it. The integration of active directory with this product is not very fruitful. It has some bugs or lacks in the functionality of active directory integration. We are unable to identify where exactly and whether it has really applied our policy."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"The whole Cisco Meraki range requires easier access for cameras. For a security center, it would be helpful to have easier access to cameras through the portal. Its licensing cost could also be better."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"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."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
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Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 97 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 17 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Meraki MX is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "Stable, easy to set up, and offers good ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Makes it easy to stay on top of everything for security". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Cisco ASA Firewall, pfSense, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG and SonicWall TZ, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Cisco ASA Firewall, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, SonicWall NSa and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Meraki MX report.
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