We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"The cloud management system is really valuable."
"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."
"Real Auto VPN with load balancer without needing a public IP. It is simple and functional."
"I think cloud management is key. The cloud management and support are the two things that make the product great."
"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."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The pricing could always be better."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"More detail needed for configuration of the VPN."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"When we do API integrations with Meraki, they have always been hard as well as tedious to build. The data that we want out of the API integrations has been only recently available. Six months ago, it was hard to get someone to build something correctly or useful with Meraki APIs. Recently, they have made more data available on the API, but it is just a start. They need to do more."
"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."
"Management can be improved in Meraki MX."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". 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". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Azure Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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