We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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 multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The product offers very good security."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The hardware is stable."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"Managed centrally over the web: You can manages all your Meraki devices in a single account."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"The security level of our organization has changed by using Meraki MX Firewalls. We didn't have the UTM before, but now we have sandboxing, tray scanning, attack preventions and monitorization. Our security level has improved."
"Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS): The best feature. It can detect malware, even a virus, and warn you by email about the device that has it. When the Meraki detects that something is wrong, it automatically blocks the connection or the intrusion, delivering a graphic report with all the necessary content."
"Deployment takes no more than one working day."
"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."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"It could use more tutorials."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The reporting can be improved."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"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."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"Meraki has some hidden features and information that is only privy to their engineers. If that information became available to us, then it would improve our ease of management, and we would be able to make certain adjustments instead of having to go to them."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 30 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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 vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Meraki MX report.
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