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 most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"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 web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"It can expand easily."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"Great security and connectivity."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Simple to manage."
"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."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"The most valuable feature is that we didn't have any problems with Meraki MX."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"Traffic Shaping: The device lets you decide how you want to use your internet services. Due to the fact that Meraki can accept dual WAN, you can decide the way you balance the data traffic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"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."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Azure Firewall definitely needs a broader feature base. It should be able to go all the way up to layer 7 when looking at applications and things like that."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"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."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"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."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"They're very complacent and I find the rule set to be a little arcane."
"More detail needed for configuration of the VPN."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
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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