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 performance is good."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The centrally managed firewalls are great."
"Check Point NGFW generates very helpful reports based on the logs of the activated features."
"The best feature is the ability to increase the capacity of the solution by exactly what you add, not losing anything for High Availability."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"Many problems have been solved with these firewalls and we've largely been very satisfied."
"The management interface is easy to operate and is a standardized way of managing different firewall modules in the same client application."
"Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the highly integrated NGFW features such as the IPS or Check Point Identity Awareness, which makes Check Point the best choice on the market."
"It has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"It is very easy to configure."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"We switched to Meraki because it lets you see what's happening in your LAN and WAN in a graphic and web environment."
"Easy to deploy with a simple configuration."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"WAN optimization is the best feature of the solution."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Its price could be better."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The end-user VPN could be improved. It could benefit from some modification."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I hope for product simplification. It would be better to use one security console, instead of many of them (for licensing and monitoring). The solution is hard for newcomers and takes much time to deep in. Also, I want a historical graph for throughput and system resources usage. Maybe it will be great to make easy step-by-step installation and configuration cookbooks as Fortinet did, and integrate the documentation within the solution."
"Stability issues. I built out this firewall in a cluster, and I had stability issues day one. Needs to be rebooted frequently. Tunnels need to be bounced frequently. Their hardware compatibility guide, when I built out the servers to host them on, was not accurate."
"There is a strong demand for security services that can be effortlessly integrated which would ensure that security measures can seamlessly adapt to the cloud infrastructure."
"Interoperability with other vendors is not the strongest when it comes to setting up VPNs."
"I would like to see better Data Leakage protection options and easier-to-understand deployment models for this."
"I would like less CPU-intensive features to be introduced to replace the existing heavy-duty processes."
"Load balancing options and ability to manage a couple of Internet connections."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"Pricing is an area where the solution lacks since it is an expensive tool."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"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."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"It is very expensive."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 275 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 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 Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Meraki MX report.
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