We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The interface is very good."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"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."
"I think cloud management is key. The cloud management and support are the two things that make the product great."
"A strong, reliable solution for small companies with little or no dedicated IT department."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"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."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"I like the automatic firmware updates. We use the Active Directory to authenticate VPN users."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"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."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"Management can be improved in Meraki MX."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"They could reduce the price."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
