We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The security fabric is excellent."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It provides end-to-end resolution."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point NGFW is the unparalleled distribution of the network traffic. The central management station they have allows you to manage everything from one place."
"We have between five and ten firewalls on-premises, and if we want to configure or push the same configuration to all of the firewalls, then the centralized management system is very helpful."
"We can build the new firewalls with minimum efforts."
"The security posture assessment with two-factor authentication has saved more time and commercial costs by avoiding deploying having to deploy another solution."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"Its auditing features are good for checking who did what changes and when."
"I like the GUI."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"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."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"We looked very closely at ArcSight's solution because it's a multi-vendor solution. With ArcSight we could have Check Point, we could have RSA, we could have any brand and integrate several brands, from a security point of view. With Check Point, you cannot do so, you can integrate with Check Point products."
"The client for the central tools is very big - maybe using web access in future releases, similar to other vendors should be possible."
"It would be nice to have comprehensive documentation and training resources that can help users and administrators to better understand and utilize the full range of Check Point's capabilities."
"It would be great if the access management, the user management features, were improved in terms of the number of users that can be connected, and how users can access the various resources with the help of firewall authentication."
"Including some sort of menu or grouping for VOIP would help the small business area that has limited support."
"SmartEvent Settings and Policy GUI, and the rest of external apps should 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."
"Check Point should quickly update and expand its application database to have what Palo Alto has."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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