We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its management console."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"The product has allowed us to develop applications from the cloud - even with large environments and well-segmented security lines."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Backup can be improved."
"The reports are very basic."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"Some more built-in marketplace templates would be nice. It would be nice to see more vendor assistance in deployments and backup of recoveries versus having customers rely upon that themselves. That would make it a lot more seamless and aligned with the standard on-premise model that is there. Check Point can extend the same posture that they have to CloudGuard and make that transition very seamless."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"The tool is very costly."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Azure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Netgate pfSense. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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