We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security 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."Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The solution is scalable."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"The technical is excellent."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"Cisco Technical Assistance Center works on a follow-the-sun concept and gives real 24x7 customer support, which is a great advantage when you have a service contract with them."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"We've had no issues with the scalability or the stability of this solution"
"Deployment takes no more than one working day."
"Its ease of configuration and management is very useful for us and for other companies that don't have an onsite IT person. It is easy to configure and easy to manage. It is easy to configure the VPN with the Auto VPN feature."
"Traffic Shaping: The device lets you decide how you want to use your internet services. Due to the fact that Meraki can accept dual WAN, you can decide the way you balance the data traffic."
"Managed centrally over the web: You can manages all your Meraki devices in a single account."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The cloud management system is really valuable."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"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."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"I would like to see much more embedded security that works and that isn't a bolt-on."
"The company needs to make its solution more affordable to make it more accessible to larger markets. Otherwise, it's seen as an enterprise-level solution that small or medium-sized organizations can't afford and therefore they won't even look at it."
"There could be a bit more functions on offer that could make it easier to use."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"The problem is that the two licenses do not currently integrate. We have to create separate companies and do an interconnection."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"You can only have one tunnel in the whole infrastructure — one tunnel with one device."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". 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". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Meraki MX report.
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