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."Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"A strong, reliable solution for small companies with little or no dedicated IT department."
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"Easy to deploy with a simple configuration."
"Ease of management is the best thing about the solution."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"From the improvement perspective, we need more monitoring capabilities. We want to have full-based access visibility, such as, what is happening when something is trying to reach and it is denying. We cannot see some parts of it. The integration of active directory with this product is not very fruitful. It has some bugs or lacks in the functionality of active directory integration. We are unable to identify where exactly and whether it has really applied our policy."
"I need more UTM protection security features."
"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."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
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, Netgate pfSense and SonicWall TZ.
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