We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and WatchGuard Firebox 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."Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"Check Point firewalls have significantly improved our ability to detect and prevent threats."
"We can decipher the activity of each connection and see what is inside it."
"The most valuable feature is the central management system through the Security Management Server. Apart from that, the graphical user interface helps us to do things easily."
"Check Point definitely has a great architecture, where you can just enable the software blades and deploy a secure service. Overall, it provides ease of deployment and ease of use."
"The firewall and IPS are the most valuable features of the solution."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"The Threat Management feature makes it very easy to detect the vulnerabilities and other factors. We can make new policy according to it. Policy creation is very simple in Check Point. Because the logs are very good in Check Point Firewall, this reduces our work with the reports that we are getting from the Threat Management. It is very convenient for us to use the reports to make new policies for security and other things."
"Check Point has given us the ability to comply with regulations and with capacities in a way that we never could before."
"It provides us with Layer 2 and Layer 3 security."
"It has everything we need in terms of functionality."
"WatchGuard Firebox is easy to configure and has a nice user interface."
"We experienced that WatchGuard is easy to setup regarding VPN compared to other firewalls of other brands."
"Because we bought two firewalls... we need a central place to manage the policies and deploy them to both devices. It's good that it provides a system management console that is able to manipulate and manage policies in one place and deploy them to different locations."
"There are no problems with the technical support. If a problem occurs it gets resolved immediately with our technical support partners."
"What I found most valuable in WatchGuard Firebox is that it's a functional platform that works, and each of its features works well. The solution also has good reporting and dashboard capabilities. I also find the overall performance of WatchGuard Firebox great."
"The reports are detailed."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"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 can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The study material for Check Point needs to be improved, as well as the cost for certification."
"It should allow more than two internet providers in its configuration of "ISP Redundancy"."
"All the advanced features of automation, especially the first installation of tunnels, need improvement."
"Check Point NGFW needs to run marketing events. They have also to set up a support center in India."
"It's too expensive for mid-market companies."
"The end-user VPN could be improved. It could benefit from some modification."
"There is no email security."
"The documentation could be better."
"The solution can improve by adding a feature to tag a MAC address of a computer system in the policy and more IP configuration settings."
"A 12-hour power outage... got our batteries."
"The performance of the solution's processor needs to be faster."
"The area where I think this product can be improved is the user interface and the reporting. It can be quite difficult to find the correct logs and to actually find out what is going on. The digging can be time-consuming."
"If they could make the traffic monitoring easier that would be great. I don't use it that frequently, but I would like to see some improvements in the ease of use of that component, so it makes more sense. I know it's a technical component so there's going to be some difficulty trying to make that easier."
"Firebox would be improved with integration for endpoint protection solutions."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
"I would like to see more simplified management of the firewall... It's a complicated system to use."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and SonicWall NSa. See our Check Point NGFW vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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