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."The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The ease of access and user-friendly setup is a valuable feature. Fortinet proves to be particularly straightforward to configure, offering simplicity without complexity. Moreover, visibility is easily attainable due to certain factors. Price, implementation, and budget considerations play a role. When it comes to Cisco implementation, the process tends to be more intricate, which many customers find unfavourable for their business needs."
"The most valuable features are the web proxy for protection and web gateway for deployment."
"The interface is decent."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"One top feature is the ability to use the appliance as a WLAN controller for up to 10 access points with the new 5.6 firmware."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to operate."
"Easy to deploy with a simple configuration."
"Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS): The best feature. It can detect malware, even a virus, and warn you by email about the device that has it. When the Meraki detects that something is wrong, it automatically blocks the connection or the intrusion, delivering a graphic report with all the necessary content."
"A strong, reliable solution for small companies with little or no dedicated IT department."
"The cloud management system is really valuable."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"It is a robust SD-WAN solution."
"The security level of our organization has changed by using Meraki MX Firewalls. We didn't have the UTM before, but now we have sandboxing, tray scanning, attack preventions and monitorization. Our security level has improved."
"It is very fast to implement."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"We have had some stability issues."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"The product needs to focus on cloud-nativeness and pricing."
"The solution can improve by adding separate interfaces for proxy and flow-based usage."
"There should be a bit more automation."
"We have experience stability issues, when the product sizing is wrong or on configuration errors."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration capability with SIEM tools, such as QRadar, and LogRhythm."
"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."
"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."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"Meraki MX can come across as an expensive solution."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"It is very expensive."
"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."
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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