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 solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the web proxy for protection and web gateway for deployment."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"The product can scale."
"The most valuable features are the IPS and Antivirus."
"It is highly scalable because it has a mesh architecture that allows consistent policies."
"It's very easy to set up, even for more junior developers."
"Since it has an integrated dashboard for all the products, customers can get complete network analytics regarding what the user is doing, monitoring, and observing."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"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 easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"The licensing needs to be improved. We need longer licensing periods, especially for POCs and trials. It should be for six months. Right now, it's too short of a timeframe."
"Price-wise, it could be slightly better, however, if you compared it to other makes and models of equal category, it is generally cheaper."
"The costs could be lowered."
"The tool is expensive."
"One thing that can be better is added automation. And, on top of that, enhanced security when it comes to the automation itself."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"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."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"I need more UTM protection security features."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"From the improvement perspective, we need more monitoring capabilities. We want to have full-based access visibility, such as, what is happening when something is trying to reach and it is denying. We cannot see some parts of it. The integration of active directory with this product is not very fruitful. It has some bugs or lacks in the functionality of active directory integration. We are unable to identify where exactly and whether it has really applied our policy."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 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 Cisco Secure Firewall, 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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