We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and SonicWall NSa based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Meraki MX has a slight edge in this comparison. Unlike SonicWall NSa, its users report a proven ROI.
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"It's very easy to configure."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"Its ease of configuration and management is very useful for us and for other companies that don't have an onsite IT person. It is easy to configure and easy to manage. It is easy to configure the VPN with the Auto VPN feature."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"It is very easy to configure."
"The product blocks access when I visit unrecognized websites."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"It has excellent stability."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"SonicWall's technical support is very good."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"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."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Meraki MX vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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