We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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 solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"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."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The hardware is stable."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"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."
"Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS): The best feature. It can detect malware, even a virus, and warn you by email about the device that has it. When the Meraki detects that something is wrong, it automatically blocks the connection or the intrusion, delivering a graphic report with all the necessary content."
"I love the simplicity of Meraki MX — specifically, the simplicity of the dashboard."
"The security level of our organization has changed by using Meraki MX Firewalls. We didn't have the UTM before, but now we have sandboxing, tray scanning, attack preventions and monitorization. Our security level has improved."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"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."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"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."
"The security feature must be improved."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"It could use more tutorials."
"I've talked to people that say Juniper now, as a device, can be a solution for a data center, but in the past, I have not seen this as being possible."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"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 product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"In general, the SD-WAN feature needs to be improved. The load sharing and load balancing of the traffic should be improved. I have had some problems with these features in the past."
"The current lead time is longer for Meraki MX, and it needs to be improved."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 30 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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 vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Zscaler Cloud Firewall and OPNsense, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Meraki MX report.
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