We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"It is a complete security bundle. The cloud-based Sky Advanced Threat Prevention feature is very valuable. I am 100% satisfied with the performance of the Juniper firewall. It has a very good throughput. It works very fine. We use our firewall as a site-to-site VPN or Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN). In both cases, it has a very good and optimum performance. Their service support is very good in India. I get really good support from the Juniper team."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"It helped us with its routing capabilities which eased the cost, because otherwise I would have had to take a router and firewall, and then integrate it. With this, however, it was an integration of firewall and routing services all together in a single product. That was one thing that I loved about it."
"The main features are safeguarding their data and ensuring robust security services for organizational data."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"The cloud management system is really valuable."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"It is easy to manage, which is one of the most important things for us. It is also flexible, stable, and scalable."
"It is very fast to implement."
"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."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"It must be 5G ready. The 5G network is rolling out soon in India, and Juniper must upgrade their firewall slot to the 5G network, or they must manufacture a 5G dongle card for the Juniper firewall. I want Juniper to upgrade their dongle from 4G to 5G. Presently, they have an expansion slot in the SRX 322 series and higher firewalls. In that expansion slot, they can put a 4G mobility SIM card so that whenever our primary link is down, it will automatically connect through this GSM network and form a tunnel."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"Its logging is very good, but we would like to have an easier way of creating more reports. We would like to be able to manipulate the reports or manage the way the reports are coming out."
"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 only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"The configuration options for firewall and IPS have limitations."
"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 IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"Management can be improved in Meraki MX."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 86 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". 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". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper vSRX, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Azure Firewall. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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