We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Sangfor NGAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"We have all the features we want or need in this appliance. It's been good so far."
"It provides a central station where it is very easy to deploy our firewall policy in one click to many firewalls. This is one of the leading perks. It saves time by having one central station because I can deploy the same kind of policy to many firewalls at once."
"The central management makes it easier, and is a time-saver, when implementing changes."
"Provides very good performance."
"The Blades work fine and the performance optimization is great."
"It is easy to administrate and maintain."
"I have not had an infected machine behind the firewall since I first installed and started using NGFW."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Its price could be better."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The speed of technical support is very slow and is something that should be improved."
"Identity Awareness has been a massive source of problems for our deployment and the ability to debug it has been lacking."
"The only reasons we are looking at other solutions are price and integration."
"The study material for Check Point needs to be improved, as well as the cost for certification."
"It will be good if the product is rack-mounted."
"Currently, some prices are very expensive."
"I would like to see an improvement of built-in monitoring capabilities such as throughput. Practically visualization of CPview outputs into beautiful pink GUI will do it."
"There's a significant area for improvement when it comes to pricing."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"The tool is expensive."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and KerioControl, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS and Huawei NGFW. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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