We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco, Sophos and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."I use Meraki in my POCs and with my customers as well."
"In a week, we can make new policy and view what all our users did."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"It is very fast to implement."
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"Traffic Shaping: The device lets you decide how you want to use your internet services. Due to the fact that Meraki can accept dual WAN, you can decide the way you balance the data traffic."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The technical support is good."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Meraki MX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and SonicWall TZ, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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