We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point NGFW is highly regarded for its extensive security features, centralized management, and virtualization capabilities. SonicWall TZ distinguishes itself with its unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and intuitive interface.
Check Point NGFW needs improvements in integration with other infrastructures, hardware upgrades, cost and pricing perspective, stability and security, setup process, load balancing capabilities, technical support, and reporting capabilities. SonicWall TZ requires improvements in rated throughput, secondary DNS hosting, cloud management, user interface, integration and flexibility, marketing and branding, reporting and licensing, additional ports, GSM and Sonic Analyzer features, advanced features and pricing, load balancing and data filtering, DLP integration, reporting analytics and user support, affordability and competition, and support and automation.
Service and Support: The feedback on Check Point NGFW's customer service varies, with some customers appreciating its helpful and responsive nature, while others believe there is room for improvement. SonicWall TZ's support is deemed satisfactory, although there have been instances of language difficulties and delays in assistance.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point NGFW can be complex and may require specialized knowledge and experience for certain configurations and migrations. The initial setup for SonicWall TZ is described as simple, direct, and user-friendly, with a seamless out-of-the-box experience.
Pricing: Based on the feedback, Check Point NGFW is known for its high setup cost, however, it provides flexible licensing options. SonicWall TZ has mixed reviews regarding its pricing and setup cost. That said, it is considered fairly priced for medium-sized companies. There are extra fees associated with its cloud management capabilities.
Comparison Results: Check Point NGFW is the preferred product over SonicWall TZ. Users appreciate Check Point NGFW's comprehensive security features, centralized management, virtualization capabilities, stability, ease of use, and scalability. They also value its ability to protect against next-generation attacks and its strong security features. Users consider the customer service and support for Check Point NGFW to be superior.
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The performance is good."
"We can easily check firewall configurations against any compliance standard."
"Check Point provides dedicated blades to monitor network traffic, which helps while troubleshooting network and packet-related issues."
"The most valuable features for us are identity awareness, IDS and IPS, and application control."
"The biggest thing is the central management. It is quite good and allows us to manage the different firewalls from it. We can implement and configure many firewalls and push our policies to them as well."
"I like the dashboard, redundancy, log analysis, threat prevention and ISP, and VPN."
"I have not had an infected machine behind the firewall since I first installed and started using NGFW."
"It is easy to use, and its management is the best. Check Point has a great unified management solution for firewalls and security products."
"I haven't had any data leaks or vulnerability situations."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"The solution is stable."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved, we have a cluster with two nodes and usually we have some problems when process gets really high and it has to choose which services it keeps going. I would like to have a better solution here, like if instead of just one we could use both at the same time. It would be good if it could work together. Then when one has a failure or something like that, the other one is there to transfer, to take all the services and keep working."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"Log queries are slow and take time to load."
"I would like there to be a way to run packets that capture more easily in the GUI environment. Right now, if we want to read packet captures, we have to do so from the command line."
"The speed of technical support is very slow and is something that should be improved."
"The SmartUpdate interface is a little bit crowded if your company has a lot of software items."
"I would like the graphic user interface to be easier to use. For example, the NAT policy should be easier to use. Check Point's NAT policy is somewhat confused compared to other competitors."
"One area that they should prioritize is enhancing security gateways for protection against cyberattacks."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"Getting support can be slow."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 276 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall TZ 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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