We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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."Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"It performs very well."
"The initial setup is straightforward; Azure Firewall does not have a complex implementation process. It is very simple; you just need to enable the service within Azure. It does not require any maintenance because it is managed by Microsoft, that is, it is a fully managed service."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The solution can autoscale."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"Ease of management is the best thing about the solution."
"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."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"It is a robust SD-WAN solution."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"We find it's different implementing it region-to-region. It might help if it was universal across all regions."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"It is very expensive."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"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 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."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". 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". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and OPNsense, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos XGS. See our Azure Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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