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 Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The interface is very good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The Identity-Based Inspection Control gives us the ability to leverage the organization’s Microsoft AD, LDAP, RADIUS, and Cisco pxGrid."
"The solution is easy to use. I like the monitoring the most."
"Check Point's most useful feature is threat prevention and extraction. It was tough to manage seven firewalls and a perimeter solution for IPS, anti-malware, anti-bot, and sandboxing."
"The platform helps our organization to save working hours."
"The centrally managed firewalls are great."
"The most valuable feature is that we are protected against zero-day threats."
"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."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"The technical support people from Meraki are brilliant."
"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."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"The cloud management system is really valuable."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"We work also with domain control (DC) from Microsoft or Amazon. We use a whole virtual appliance with Meraki."
"Site to Site VPN: The device can establish a VPN connection to multiple sites in a mesh environment in seconds, and without complex VPN knowledge."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"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."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Identity Awareness has been a massive source of problems for our deployment and the ability to debug it has been lacking."
"I hope for product simplification. It would be better to use one security console, instead of many of them (for licensing and monitoring). The solution is hard for newcomers and takes much time to deep in. Also, I want a historical graph for throughput and system resources usage. Maybe it will be great to make easy step-by-step installation and configuration cookbooks as Fortinet did, and integrate the documentation within the solution."
"Check Point Smart Dashboard does not support my Apple MacBook Air. It only supports Windows versions."
"Sometimes we need to find a resolution by ourselves as the solution's knowledge base is not enough."
"Timely updates to security databases, firmware, and software are crucial for addressing new threats."
"The main thing for a normal operations guy who is creating tools and firewalls, it is quite difficult to manage. It requires an expert level of knowledge in Check Point products to manage these scalable platform appliances and the virtual firewall that comes with it. We have to educate our guys and give them training on a regular basis to work on these products."
"The only downside to Check Point, is, due to the vast expanse of configurable options, it does become easily overwhelming."
"Hopefully, in the future, these will be much more plug-and-play and orchestrated from a single administration console."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls 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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