We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The solution offers a good GUI."
"SmartCenter and SmartLog are the best platforms to manage firewall rules. SandBlast Zero-Day is very useful when encountering any security leaks."
"The IPS is frequently updated so the rules are always new and in place."
"We are delighted with the powerful management console and diagnostic tools."
"What gives me the most value is undoubtedly the security that the anti-bot and anti-virus blades provide."
"Check Point provides dedicated blades to monitor network traffic, which helps while troubleshooting network and packet-related issues."
"Check Point NGFW generates very helpful reports based on the logs of the activated features."
"Check Point is very administrator-friendly and the SmartDashboard is easy to use."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is scalable."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The API support is good. However, Check Point needs to focus on more prepared scripts for some tiresome actions."
"The antivirus Check Point offers could be better when compared to competitors' firewalls. Updates should be more frequent."
"There is no clear way to report incorrect classification to support and a business is neither happy nor forgiving when they cannot receive mail from a crucial business partner."
"The upgrade process for Check Point NGFW is not very simple, making it difficult to find the resources needed for the upgrade compared to competitors like Fortinet."
"The frequency of the antivirus updates which we get for Check Point firewalls should increase. They should be of good quality compared to the competitive firewalls on the market. They should give us stable antivirus signatures. That is an area in which they can improve."
"Without any training, it is very hard to administrate the whole Check Point NGFW."
"The antivirus is less effective than its competitors' antivirus. The antivirus is good, but in other firewalls, such as Palo Alto, it's quite effective. Check Point should provide more output. Sometimes it provides comprehensive information and sometimes it doesn't."
"We would like to see constant improvement in anti-malware functionality and anti-threat protection."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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