We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Good load balancing feature."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"It can expand easily."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"The stability of the solution is good. We haven't faced any issues at all while using the product."
"It's a very simple solution to manage."
"It has allowed us to centralize every network service into one appliance."
"A top feature is the really good web interface and the classic Fortinet features, such as IPS, IDS, AV scanner, and spam filter."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"In terms of administration, it's perfect."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"I like the automatic firmware updates. We use the Active Directory to authenticate VPN users."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"Its ease of configuration and management is very useful for us and for other companies that don't have an onsite IT person. It is easy to configure and easy to manage. It is easy to configure the VPN with the Auto VPN feature."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"The solution's web-filtering configuration could be better."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"We have had some stability issues."
"The price is problematic."
"The technical support is not very responsive and is an area that needs to be improved."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"When we do API integrations with Meraki, they have always been hard as well as tedious to build. The data that we want out of the API integrations has been only recently available. Six months ago, it was hard to get someone to build something correctly or useful with Meraki APIs. Recently, they have made more data available on the API, but it is just a start. They need to do more."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"Right now, you can postpone the update but eventually, if you don't do the update, it will install the updates automatically for you and that's something that is not working for me."
"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."
"It can be hard to get a hold of the solution’s technical support team."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Meraki MX report.
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