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 Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"We have all the features we want or need in this appliance. It's been good so far."
"The management of the firewall and advanced routing is great."
"The edge security posture has dramatically improved as we can now detect and prevent threats from the public internet."
"It is a very friendly platform and easy to configure."
"By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"The most valuable features for us are identity awareness, IDS and IPS, and application control."
"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing this solution we have to rely on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewall that we had configured on switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently not an efficient for protecting from advanced threats."
"It's offering great security while also being rather easy to manage."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"I use Meraki in my POCs and with my customers as well."
"Simple to manage."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The exterior of the physical device can be improved with the use of a display and not just simple lights."
"When you want to open the gateway by double-clicking on the interface, sometimes it can cause silly problems such as freezing."
"The VPN setup could be simplified. We had to engage professional services for that. That's not a problem, but compared to other products we've used, it was a little more complex."
"The need to offer scheduled policy pushes in Smart Console."
"Check Point can scale but at times we have experienced some issues."
"The area where Check Point can improve is the antivirus, as it only provides a small number of updates for it. Updates should be more frequent."
"There needs to be more storage space for reporting."
"One thing to improve is the VSX gateway. It is quite complex to work with VSX and they are quite easy to break if you aren't familiar with them."
"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."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"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 current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"The whole Cisco Meraki range requires easier access for cameras. For a security center, it would be helpful to have easier access to cameras through the portal. Its licensing cost could also be better."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"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."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 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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