We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation 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 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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"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."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The initial setup for me was straightforward."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Its interface is complex when compared with a firewall like FortiGate. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall needs a management console, whereas FortiGate doesn't need any console. When you have a few devices, a console is not really necessary. It's good to have a private console only when you have a lot of devices."
"It's a complicated firewall. Until you come to know the firewall inducers, most people don't like the firewall because the components for the firewall are a little bit complex. User-friendliness is a little bit tough. It needs to be user-friendly when creating policies, and pushing policies. Committing takes more time compared to Palo Alto."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"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."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"MX can only be managed via a web interface, but I'm accustomed to using a CLI or a graphical interface. I would also like to see more reporting features. It doesn't provide enough information for me to know precisely about some clients."
"More detail needed for configuration of the VPN."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"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 product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". 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". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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