Overview
What is Cisco Meraki MX?
Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls is a combined UTM and Software-Defined WAN solution. Meraki is managed via the cloud, and provides core firewall services, including site-to-site VPN, plus network monitoring.
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Easy to use, and provides transparence to your network
Cisco Meraki MX, a Real Firewall ?
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Cisco Meraki MX is the best cloud based firewall
I love Cisco Meraki MX
The entire Meraki product line is extremely reliable, easy to manage, and cost effective
Cisco Meraki MX Works for Us
How Cisco Meraki MX Differs From Its Competitors
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The single portal integration with switches and APs gives us a seamless look at our network and helps us get to the root of potential issues and …
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Administration is also no longer restricted to just the security guy within the IT Team, it can and …
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Popular Features
- Visualization Tools (82)8.484%
- Identification Technologies (81)8.080%
- Firewall Management Console (83)7.777%
- Reporting and Logging (85)7.272%
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Pricing
MX64
$595
MX67
$695
MX68
$995
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Firewall
A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out
- 8Identification Technologies(81) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
- 8.4Visualization Tools(82) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
- 7.3Content Inspection(81) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
- 7.3Policy-based Controls(79) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
- 7.1Active Directory and LDAP(71) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
- 7.7Firewall Management Console(83) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
- 7.2Reporting and Logging(85) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
- 8VPN(81) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
- 8.4High Availability(81) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
- 8Stateful Inspection(76) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
- 7Proxy Server(44) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic
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What is Cisco Meraki MX?
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Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-25 of 114)Cisco Meraki MX does it well, but do not expect NGFW
- AutoVPN - Easy deployable VPN solution for secure site to site communications
- Intuitive GUI
- Cloud management, with zero touch deployment
- Good integration with other Meraki products
- Good integration with Cisco Umbrella SSE
- OSPF is limited to send routes
- BGP has very limited configuration, just IP and ASN. No option for BPG communities, route-maps, filtering
- Source NAT over AutoVPN is not enabled. Need to raise ticket with support
- IPS is very basic
- Overall do not expect full blown NGFW, but it is easy to implement, understand and will be sufficient for medium business
Cisco Meraki MX
- Ease of configuration
- Simple maintenance
- Would like to have the ability to stage and schedule changes
- Native Azure identity integration
- Better UI for firewall rules
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- SDWAN
- Routing
- DNS conditional redirection
- Firewall rules
Less appropriate for Big company with specific needs and specialists because they will be limited in their scope
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- SD-WAN
- Oversight
- Bandwidth utilization
- FQDN
- Firewall rules grouping
- Application rules
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- Easy to use
- SDWAN
- Monitoring of VPNs
- STP for HA
- Firewall Logs
- More clear documentation for Licenses
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- AutoVPN
- Configuration simplicity
- Info on dashboard
- Cisco Meraki MX doesn't support lacp aggregate on lan ports
- Not able to add wan links as you want. You strictly depend on up to 2 physical wan ports
- Not able to configure non-Meraki VPN since you don't have a hub
Less appropriate: Complex sd-wan topology, advanced security feature
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Second problem we solved, it would be related with day 2 operations, the way we can interact via scripts with the equipment solve many problems for them.
- Securing outbound access
- Providing information about the network
- Setting up site to site VPNs
- Setting up auto VPN between same customer appliances
- Logs of firewall rules, right now you need something external to do it
- More flexibility for l7 applications
Easy to use, and provides transparence to your network
- Threat detection and monitoring. Great visual information about detections.
- Easy to configure and maintain.
- Reliable. It just works.
- Integration - single portal - with their other products.
- Map and floor plan area is clunky.
- The way you need to segment devices by network causes you to need to go to different dropdowns to see everything at a single site. They have improved this and now allow you to add firewall, switches and wireless to create a single site, but still a bit clunky.
Cisco Meraki MX, a Real Firewall ?
- Client VPN
- SD Wan Connections
- IDS/IPS
- The firewall's livelog is missing
- IDS / IPS Livelog (detail) is missing
- Inside NAT (Source NAT)
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- Security
- Stability
- Simplicity
- User friendly
- Much better SD-WAN
- All in one box with 5G an Wi-Fi. 7
- Much better API
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- Ease of management
- Secure connectivity
- Advanced troubleshooting with connectivity to ThousandEyes
- More advanced configuration options for advanced administrators
Cisco Meraki MX is the best cloud based firewall
- App filtering
- VPN
- Threat prevention
- Improve flexible rule configuration between site to site vpn
- allow to create more granular time schedules
- enhance HA system
I love Cisco Meraki MX
- AutoVPN
- Integration with Umbrella and other cisco products
- Cisco secure client VPN
- Simplicity and easy to use
- More complexed NATs , PATS, source NATs, VPN NATs, etc…
- Some snort rules doesn’t applies sometimes
- Split dns tunneling
The entire Meraki product line is extremely reliable, easy to manage, and cost effective
- Management interface is easy to work with.
- Security is a primary consideration and is easy to manage.
- Compliance settings are easy to maintain
- Timely firmware updates.
- My only real suggestion is increased bandwidth on the lower end units as ISP performance, along with business needs, have significantly grown over the past decade.
Cisco Meraki MX Works for Us
- Geofencing
- Firewall
- SDWAN
- URL Filtering
- Configuration can be slow
- In the console, movement from one network to another is very slow at times
- Each site must be separately configured
Cisco Meraki MXs are perfect for IT personnel. With great performance, reliability, and ease of use!
- Site to Site VPN Tunnel
- Firewall Rules
- DHCP
- NAT Routing
- Blocking web traffic
- Client VPN Connections
- Port Forwarding
- The content filtering was changed from being able to set partial lists that the Appliance uses for blocking when using categories to using full lists provided by a 3rd party. It is not a huge deal. We had to change some things, but when Cisco Meraki MX changed to a full list of categories, one of our locations had really slow browsing speeds.
- You are able to add URLs to block in content filtering, and we are constantly having to add them to all our sites individually, which can take some time. I wish there was a way to add a URL to all sites in a batch. I have read you might be able to do through Meraki API connections, but I haven't looked too far into it.
- Sometimes, not all things are in the logs for the appliance, and I have to reach out to Cisco Meraki MX. I have implemented a syslog server and that did help a little.
We primarily get the MX100 for our bigger locations and MX67 (or newer in the series, depending on what is out). They provide reliable VPN tunnels between locations and the ability to have a primary circuit and backup circuit for the internet, in case a circuit goes down.
Cisco Meraki MX - Out of the box Firewall
- Security
- Cloud Management
- Interconnectivity
- Ease of setup
- Privacy
- Option for local management
- Simplified interface
- Subscription costs
Cisco Meraki: ease of use and interconnectivity!
- Ease of management
- Cloud based access
- Security
- VPN
- VPN client could be better.
- Ability to delegate better lower level access for reporting.
- Reporting functions are sometimes limited.
Gateway Security Nirvana
- Provides for a comprehensive, graphical view of LAN and WAN status, including bandwidth consumption over time.
- The security center allows you to view affected clients and the threats that were levied against them. You can configure the system to email reports. I have one waiting for me in my inbox every morning, so I can review the activity of the previous day. For real-time views, I can simply access the dashboard.
- The content filtering is easy to configure and works extremely well. Traffic shaping allows you prioritize traffic on the network, such as VOIP and video conferencing, while limiting others, such as social media and music streaming services. You can also assign flow preferences by VLAN; for example, I channel VOIP traffic through a separate WAN interface from all other traffic.
- The device makes it easy to configure VLANs, by which you assign uplinks and bandwidth limitations and also provide addressing via DHCP.
- I have appreciated the lengths to which Cisco has gone to document the Meraki product line. And when that hasn't sufficed, the Meraki tech support has been incredible. They will log in to your network and help you get things properly configured if there is an issue or you want to make changes.
- I purchased the Meraki Insight product, which allows for an extra layer of monitoring of what is happening on your network and monitors connectivity to other networks. It also allows you to set alerts for when your network, your ISP's network, or the remote connection is having an issue. This is extremely helpful, but I feel this should be included in the base product considering the price of the support package.
- It is designed to work with other Meraki products. If you install this product but your switches, APs, cameras, etc, are from another vendor, you will be missing out on the integrations and insights that come from managing your network from a single, cloud-based dashboard.
Fastest gear to deploy
- Best management application
- Great support
- Easy to configure
- So far, we have no issues with it
A solid network solution.
- Simplified networking
- Simplified commercials
- Foundations for innovation
- Providing best quotes is often difficult and requires heavy involvement of multiple teams to be able to get a singular outcome
Satisfied
- Firewall
- Gui
- More troubleshooting commands
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- Ease of Use
- Simplity
- Multiple administrators
- Good for the segment Market its aimed for
- Firmware updates
- Console access
- Local web interface
Simple, Scalable and Fully Featured
- SDWAN / Auto-VPN
- Rapid deployment to new location
- Zero touch provisioning
- Simple configuration
- Full visibility of traffic ingress and egress through the MX
- Traffic analytics
- Utilise Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
- AnyConnect implementation needs to offer more bespoke configuration
- Content Filtering reporting is not very good
- Migration to new Dashboard has left a very mixed experience across pages
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- The management is the best. I'm an old-fashioned networking guy, so I'm used to going to the site itself and connecting. For example, a console cable and start and start configuring. Now since the management is so easy on Meraki I can configure everything from the headquarters from where I sit in Israel and then just go to the site and connect and basically, it's plug and play. After I configure everything from my office in Israel, I can just go to the site for a few hours, and connect everything. Just the magic happens.
- Well, to be honest, I'm not sure that the updates in this world are the best. I'll give you an example. I configured the MX about a year ago in some way, and then Meraki has put on some updates. When I tried to configure a new MX, I noticed new places that should feel like some kind of IP address and those kinds of things that I didn't need to configure back in the day. So it made it a bit more difficult, but we've managed to solve it. So the update, how updates are being rolled out, that thing should be addressed in a different way.