We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The VPN is great."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"It is very fast to implement."
"In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"Managed centrally over the web: You can manages all your Meraki devices in a single account."
"What I like best about Meraki MX is that it's easy to deploy remotely. The product works. It has automatic updates. I also like that Meraki MX is a brilliant device. You turn it on, stick the key in there, activate it, and then you're done. Meraki MX does what my customers need at the end of the day, so I also like that."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"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."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"The security features need to be improved."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"The client-side VPN is weak. The product could be improved with deployment templates."
"The product is quite complex to set up."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"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 only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". 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". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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