We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch."
"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."
"When browsing, it scans sites to ensure that they are safe and that no harm can be caused."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"The most valuable feature is that we can use the same manager server that we use on our own Check Point firewalls. We integrated CloudGuard on that manager and we can use the same kind of protections that we use on the on-prem firewalls, like the IPS and antivirus policy. We can have the same kind of protection on the Cloud environment that we have on-premise."
"The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"The technical support people from Meraki are brilliant."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"Meraki MX offers advanced filtration options, plus it behaves like a router and a firewall at the same time."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"The product can still grow."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"In case the device is inaccessible due to some issue such as CPU or memory, there is no separate port or hardware partition provided for troubleshooting purposes."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"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."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"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."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 121 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". 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". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Meraki MX report.
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