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."The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"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."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Meraki makes it easy to be secure and know where the holes are to fix them. We have been fixing anything that we have ever found for 20 years. We keep up-to-date with firmware upgrades. We just try to stay on top of everything for security, like maintaining updates and getting rid of old systems. I feel like we're on top of it."
"The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"Meraki MX offers advanced filtration options, plus it behaves like a router and a firewall at the same time."
"It is very fast to implement."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"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."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"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 product could be made more customizable."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"Meraki tech support staff have a lot more visibility into your network than you do, which is frustrating at times. I understand the approach is to keep the dashboard easier to understand. This will frustrate more advanced users at times."
"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."
"In general, the SD-WAN feature needs to be improved. The load sharing and load balancing of the traffic should be improved. I have had some problems with these features in the past."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 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, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Azure Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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