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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"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."
"The features we found most valuable are using the IDS and IPS during protection. The application filtering feature is great."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"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."
"The internet traffic shaping has been very valuable."
"It has very good features; it's easy to use, configure, set up, and deploy."
"A strong, reliable solution for small companies with little or no dedicated IT department."
"The solution is good for load balancing."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"It has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"Simple to manage."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The reporting can be improved."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"The biggest downside of Juniper vSRX is its pricing, which may be too high for smaller organizations. While it's a decent solution, the cost may limit its accessibility to smaller customers."
"he stability could be improved."
"The only stability issue is in Content Filtering. Sometimes we need to report these types of issues to Cisco support."
"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."
"Meraki MX firewalls are great for small to medium-sized businesses, but other solutions are better for enterprise-sized companies."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"FortiGate is cheaper than Meraki. Even the license renewal is less than Meraki."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"It is very expensive."
"When it comes to cost, that's a pain point."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 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, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, 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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