We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"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."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The solution has good features."
"The technical support has been good."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The command feature is valuable."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"Site to Site VPN: The device can establish a VPN connection to multiple sites in a mesh environment in seconds, and without complex VPN knowledge."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"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."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The reports are very basic."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The pricing still needs some improvement."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The user interface could always be better. They could make it simpler and more intuitive."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"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."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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 vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Meraki MX report.
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