We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."It's very easy to configure."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Remote access with a secure workspace provides a clear separation between the client and corporate network."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"Its simplified management, enhanced remote support capabilities, and the ability to facilitate secure VPN connectivity for numerous offices and employees are highly beneficial."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"I like the dashboard, redundancy, log analysis, threat prevention and ISP, and VPN."
"All policies can be deployed and managed in a very simple way."
"Check Point definitely has a great architecture, where you can just enable the software blades and deploy a secure service. Overall, it provides ease of deployment and ease of use."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"To me, the analytics feature is one of the most valuable in Meraki MX. I also find that it has good usability as it's cloud-based. Another valuable feature of Meraki MX is that it's simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The UI could be improved."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"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."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The interface can be more user-friendly in terms of design and the location of critical and commonly used icons."
"The equipment is complex, so you need guidance from specialized people or those who constantly work with Check Point. Better forums and information manuals could be provided so that users from different institutions can have more access to the information."
"I would like there to be a way to run packet captures more easily in the GUI environment. Right now, if we want to read packet captures, we have to do so from the command line."
"Something worth mentioning is the need for Spanish support and better representation for teams in the Latin American area."
"Internet load balancing provides either active/passive or active/active load balancing, however, I would like to see more options that provide SD-WAN capabilities while also allowing for more than two links."
"They need to offer quicker resolution and maintenance during downtime."
"Debugging is very complex when compared to Fortinet, for example. That's the worst thing about Check Point. The deployment of the solution is harder than it is with the competitors. But after you've deployed it, the operation is easy."
"The biggest improvement they could make is having one software to install on all three levels of their products, so that the SMBs, the normal models, and the chassis would all run the same software. Now, while there is central management, everything that has to be configured on the gateway itself works differently on the three kinds of devices."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"Management can be improved in Meraki MX."
"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 feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"We do not have account managers in our region for the solution. Some governments don't use the product since it is attached to the internet."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 279 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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 NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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