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."There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The technical support is great."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The scalability is fine."
"Great as an inter-segmentation firewall or border or arch-firewall."
"The IPSec configuration is going well."
"I like the Junos OS, which has been very good for me. It's very clever."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The user interface is good."
"It is very easy to use and manage. It is also very easy to scale."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"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."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"Ease of management is the best thing about the solution."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"Point-to-point VPNs can dynamically follow IP changes with no need for static IPs."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"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."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"Does not offer protection for IoT devices"
"There is room for improvement in scalability and performance. It's scalable and reliable, but when using next-generation firewall features, the performance decreases significantly for Juniper SRX."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"It would be nice to get detailed logging information without third-party software."
"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."
"Meraki tech support staff have a lot more visibility into your network than you do, which is frustrating at times. I understand the approach is to keep the dashboard easier to understand. This will frustrate more advanced users at times."
"You cannot use switching behaviors as you see on the Meraki switch."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 4th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 87 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 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 Sophos XG, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Sophos XGS. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. Meraki MX report.
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