We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."It is a good source for firewall protection."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The command feature is valuable."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"It has the most advanced security features, for example, layer 3 and layer 7 firewall capabilities and the end team and IPS protection. It also has IPS, and it has very good functioning of cloning services. You don't actually have to touch the device. If you have multiple companies in different countries, you don't really require this device to be touched. You can get it delivered directly to any office of a country, and then you can simply put your configuration over the cloud. It's very simplified and easy to manage. It gives a very good granular visibility about your network. Earlier, a lot of things were lacking in the network. We were unable to identify where the problem was, but after implementing Meraki MX, we are able to dig down and identify where is the problem. We can easily and quickly identify the sources and the root causes of the issues."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"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 most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The security feature must be improved."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"It could use more tutorials."
"They really need to improve the GUI."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"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."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"Meraki MX can come across as an expensive solution."
"It is very expensive."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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 vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Meraki MX report.
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