We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It protects from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Screen Options."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"Performance is a strong point."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"You can use your web browser to do the configuration which is easier than Cisco CLI transcripts."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the Meraki dashboard, which is a single pane of glass."
"It is very easy to configure."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"It needs better interoperability with Cisco gear."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"Meraki MX can come across as an expensive solution."
"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."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"The whole Cisco Meraki range requires easier access for cameras. For a security center, it would be helpful to have easier access to cameras through the portal. Its licensing cost could also be better."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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 SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Check Point NGFW. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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