We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"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 solution is good for load balancing."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"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."
"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."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
Earn 20 points
Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN 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 Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense.
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