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."The next-generation firewall is great."
"Good load balancing feature."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It'sa very secure device, it has good attack prevention capabilities using UTM."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto."
"User-friendly solution with security bundle and USB blocking features"
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"Ease of management is the best thing about the solution."
"It is very easy to configure."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"The cloud features can be improved."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"Both the web management and the graphical user interface are inadequate and should be improved."
"I think Juniper SRX should have a GUI. Some of the competitors are already implementing GUI for the firewall."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"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."
"They're very complacent and I find the rule set to be a little arcane."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"It would be nice if the different services, including the SIEM SOC and endpoint detection and response (EDR) were integrated into one, so that I don't have to go to different vendors for different services."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"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 feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
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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