We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The simplicity of the access control is the most valuable feature for us. It gives us the ability to easily identify traffic that is either being allowed or denied to our network."
"The Blades work fine and the performance optimization is great."
"The management of the firewall and advanced routing is great."
"The ease of configuring VPNs can be very useful especially for companies with lots of remote locations."
"Check Point NGFW provides a bunch of different products or Blades, as they call it in Check Point. The firewall engine is what we use the most but we also use the IPS IDS and Anti-Bot features. The solution provides many features."
"Extracting data from the logs and utilizing the log analyzer tool provides valuable insights and enhances the product's overall effectiveness."
"Remote access with a secure workspace provides a clear separation between the client and corporate network."
"Apart from it having very good features, I personally like the vulnerability assistance via report management which detects host and network vulnerability."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"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."
"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 one thing I have been continually asking for is a more robust certification process including self-paced study material similar to Cisco's Security certification track."
"Support cases have been generated several times, and it takes time for the case to be resolved."
"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."
"The training for Check Point Firewall should increase, including the number of Training Centers. For most new people in our organization, we have to provide them training from our end, as they are not trained in Check Point Firewalls. So, we have to do the training, from our point of view, to make our engineers able to use Check Point Firewalls. However, with other firewalls, they are already trained, so we are not require to provide them training. This could be improved by the Check Point Community."
"The antivirus feature is a little bit weak and should be improved."
"It is a bit expensive according to the required blades but it is a platform that is worth having as security in a corporate."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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