We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"Meraki MX offers advanced filtration options, plus it behaves like a router and a firewall at the same time."
"It is very easy to configure."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"A strong, reliable solution for small companies with little or no dedicated IT department."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"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 is quite complex to set up."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"Recently, they introduced their Prisma Cloud solution. Compared to the previous technologies, like Panorama, which is used for centralized firewall management, or even the individual firewalls, it's a bit challenging to integrate the traditional firewall policies into Prisma Cloud."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Meraki MX vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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