We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"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 most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper SRX is that it is plug-and-play. Additionally, it has a lot of capabilities in one device."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The CLI works perfectly."
"The features that I have found valuable are the ones for the main purpose we are using Juniper - its firewall to protect our network for our internet access."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"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."
"In a week, we can make new policy and view what all our users did."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Managed centrally over the web: You can manages all your Meraki devices in a single account."
"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."
"I like the automatic firmware updates. We use the Active Directory to authenticate VPN users."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"The solution is quite advanced. You need a lot of training to use it effectively."
"We tried configuring the IDS for more than four months, but it did not work properly."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"It can be hard to get a hold of the solution’s technical support team."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 87 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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