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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"It performs very well."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"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."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"I like the routing and firewall features."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable."
"The command line in Juniper SRX is extremely powerful, in my opinion. It's one of the best command lines I've used in networking products."
"Easy to deploy with a simple configuration."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"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."
"Since it has an integrated dashboard for all the products, customers can get complete network analytics regarding what the user is doing, monitoring, and observing."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"I use Meraki in my POCs and with my customers as well."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Its price could be better."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"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."
"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."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"While the GUI is pretty good on the Juniper side, there can still be tweaks made to it that will make it even better."
"The product only has basic features."
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"The reporting is lacking."
"I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"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."
"The IPS, the Intrusion Prevention System, can be improved."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"We have been having a problem with the VPN. When the energy goes down and is back again, the VPN link doesn't get established. We have to manually turn off the modems and other pieces of equipment and manually establish the VPN. It has been around one month since we have been having this problem, and we don't have enough support from Meraki to solve the problem."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"Meraki has some hidden features and information that is only privy to their engineers. If that information became available to us, then it would improve our ease of management, and we would be able to make certain adjustments instead of having to go to them."
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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