We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The GUI is good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly."
"The central management console has helped with segregation, where planned interventions with management consoles do not have any impact on production or critical business traffic."
"They utilize various gateway features, including Identity as a Service (IDaaS), anti-spam, antivirus, and other security measures, effectively creating a robust defense against a wide range of potential risks."
"I have to say that it was Application Control and web filtering are excellent."
"It's quite a stable solution."
"The fact that these can be separated and made in different layers provides excellent convenience for the administrators who regulate the rules."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"Meraki makes it easy to be secure and know where the holes are to fix them. We have been fixing anything that we have ever found for 20 years. We keep up-to-date with firmware upgrades. We just try to stay on top of everything for security, like maintaining updates and getting rid of old systems. I feel like we're on top of it."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"I like the automatic firmware updates. We use the Active Directory to authenticate VPN users."
"It is very easy to configure."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"Simple to manage."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Backup can be improved."
"The biggest improvement they could make is having one software to install on all three levels of their products, so that the SMBs, the normal models, and the chassis would all run the same software. Now, while there is central management, everything that has to be configured on the gateway itself works differently on the three kinds of devices."
"Although Check Point provides annual updates to the Gaia platform, integration with other OEMs is difficult."
"They have few predefined reports and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"There is room for enhancement in the support system in India."
"Some features, like the VPN, antispam, data loss prevention, etc., are managed in an external console. In the future, I'd like all features in the same console, in one place, where we can see and configure all features."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"It would help if they were easier to deploy, without needing more technical people. It would be nice if we could just give basic information, how to connect, and that would be all, while the rest of the setup could be done remotely."
"The interface could be better."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"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."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"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."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 275 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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