We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Sophos XGS 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."Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The product offers very good security."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"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."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"It is very easy to configure."
"It has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"What I like best about Meraki MX is that it's easy to deploy remotely. The product works. It has automatic updates. I also like that Meraki MX is a brilliant device. You turn it on, stick the key in there, activate it, and then you're done. Meraki MX does what my customers need at the end of the day, so I also like that."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The centralized security is very good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are the ease of use and powerful interface."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"Sophos XGS that's a good firewall. If you use the endpoint, then you have what Sophos calls synchronized security. That will mean that if one of the endpoints is affected, it will be automatically set in isolation."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos is the VPN solution. I also value their threat management, IPS IDS features and login features with single sign-on."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"When we do API integrations with Meraki, they have always been hard as well as tedious to build. The data that we want out of the API integrations has been only recently available. Six months ago, it was hard to get someone to build something correctly or useful with Meraki APIs. Recently, they have made more data available on the API, but it is just a start. They need to do more."
"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."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"It can be hard to get a hold of the solution’s technical support team."
"Meraki tech support staff have a lot more visibility into your network than you do, which is frustrating at times. I understand the approach is to keep the dashboard easier to understand. This will frustrate more advanced users at times."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"There are a lot of false-positive cases."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"The speed of report generation could be improved."
"Compared to Fortinet, the cost is high."
"The solution could be easier to manage and configure."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
"The reporting could be better."
"In my view, Sophos operates effectively in a reactive mode, focusing on static detection and forwarding traffic. However, Fortinet takes a more proactive approach, blocking both connection and route connections. While Sophos forwards any connection in both inbound and outbound traffic, I believe this is a positive aspect, especially in a country with various sizing considerations. This is my perspective, emphasizing the significance of Sophos XGS in software work."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 60 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Sophos XGS 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 Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and OPNsense, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Sophos UTM. See our Meraki MX vs. Sophos XGS report.
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