We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The firewall rule writing and object creation are the best and simplest I've seen on a firewall."
"The Next Generation Firewalls, the 64000 and 44000 series, provide us with support for large data centers and telco environments. They're quite reliable and provide great performance."
"The ability to split single hardware into multiple virtuals along with support for dynamic routing using BGP is very useful for our environment."
"The best feature is the ability to increase the capacity of the solution by exactly what you add, not losing anything for High Availability."
"I use it as well as a VM. We use it a lot because we have all fiber optic connections, so we could use almost all of that. The federation is beautiful because I can transfer all traffic to my main site where I can use just one link to the internet, and I can use it as a proxy as well. It is good to keep control and security."
"The failover from one device to the other has been seamless and we find that we do not lose ongoing SIP calls or Teams chats."
"Its greatest asset lies in its user-friendly interface, making it exceptionally suitable and reliable for managing gateways."
"It has allowed us to grow in a safe way and in accordance with our particular needs."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"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 has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"In general, Meraki MX is easy to work with."
"In a week, we can make new policy and view what all our users did."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"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."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"The antivirus feature is a little bit weak and should be improved."
"Currently, upgrades are quite cumbersome."
"Technical support could be improved."
"There are some GUI features in Check Point's SmartConsole that are still from the old versions and are in separate/duplicated interfaces; it would be most useful if it is integrated and not on different menus."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The software licensing model is too complicated with all the various tiers of SKUs (i.e. per software blade). They need to simplify this for easier purchasing and renewing."
"The current model is predominantly hardware appliance-based, which can incur substantial costs"
"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."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
"Load balancing options and ability to manage a couple of Internet connections."
"I need more UTM protection security features."
"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."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"We do not have account managers in our region for the solution. Some governments don't use the product since it is attached to the internet."
"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."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 277 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 58 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos XGS. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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