Cisco Meraki MX vs Palo Alto Networks WildFire

• The appliances are very, very easy to use. You could set one up for basic use with minimal documentation.
• Intuitive menus in the Meraki Dashboard make traversing your options and finding what you need very easy.
• Good support options and a healthy knowledge base with well-written guides.

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• This is could base and easily manageable for our collocation. While working within the could can review in live time potential treats that it has reported from other devices.
• Worked very well with existing Palo Alto devices.
• Another huge plus is the simplicity of managing and ease of scalability.
• Its cost is competitive with similar/like products available.

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• As soon as network equipment is seen by the MX, it labels it, making it confusing as to if a device is rogue
• The reporting in the Client window is not real-time, [it's] not really accurate until some time has passed
• Individual client bandwidth usage seems to be inaccurate in the clients window

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• WildFire, like other sandboxes, has to stay up with malware sandbox evasion techniques, which necessitates larger file size limits.
• More file formats should be able to be submitted and scanned by WildFire, which needs improved initial administration and setup.
• It's quite pricey, and there's no warning choice for performance on the cloud.

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• Previously I managed Cisco ASA equipment and enjoyed these firewalls. The need to train other admins and deployment at MSP clients were at the top of my list for switching to Meraki MX. The learning curve is much less steep for new security admins and the central dashboard allows coolabritive efforts when admins are in different locations. Built-in change management makes it easy to see who made specific changes as changes are logged on the dashboard.
• Other content filtering solutions that I have used had more bells and whistles, but given the cost, complexity, and management overhead, I am very pleased with Meraki’s solution.

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• Unknown file analysis helps with identifying malware that may not have a current signature.
• Additional visibility into files transferred across networks.

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