We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [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."The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"It has the most advanced security features, for example, layer 3 and layer 7 firewall capabilities and the end team and IPS protection. It also has IPS, and it has very good functioning of cloning services. You don't actually have to touch the device. If you have multiple companies in different countries, you don't really require this device to be touched. You can get it delivered directly to any office of a country, and then you can simply put your configuration over the cloud. It's very simplified and easy to manage. It gives a very good granular visibility about your network. Earlier, a lot of things were lacking in the network. We were unable to identify where the problem was, but after implementing Meraki MX, we are able to dig down and identify where is the problem. We can easily and quickly identify the sources and the root causes of the issues."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"I am happy with the technical support for the solution. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"In a week, we can make new policy and view what all our users did."
"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."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"Load balancing options and ability to manage a couple of Internet connections."
"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."
"It would be nice if the different services, including the SIEM SOC and endpoint detection and response (EDR) were integrated into one, so that I don't have to go to different vendors for different services."
"Right now, you can postpone the update but eventually, if you don't do the update, it will install the updates automatically for you and that's something that is not working for me."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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". McAfee StoneGate [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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