We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Fortinet Fortigate based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet’s lack of an option to deploy firewalls on multiple endpoints is a definite downside. Although Fortinet received better feedback for its support, Check Point is the winner in this comparison.
"What gives me the most value is undoubtedly the security that the anti-bot and anti-virus blades provide."
"mart Console simplifies the management of current policies and objects, making it effortless to track an object's usage or identify unused objects, thus ensuring a tidy configuration."
"The Smart Dashboard allows for rule creation and administration and management and is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized management, which gives us control over all of the Check Point gateways."
"The sales, pre-sales, professional services, and tech support are all very nice."
"The way in which it manages the nodes within a cluster architecture is excellent, offering fault tolerance which is, in my experience, practically imperceptible when one of the nodes fails."
"Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly."
"The management interface is easy to operate and is a standardized way of managing different firewall modules in the same client application."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"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."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Potential improvements could be made around simplifying VPN functionality and configuration."
"A lot of things need to be improved in Check Point NGFW. One, their support team isn't very efficient and useful."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"Hopefully, in the future, these will be much more plug-and-play and orchestrated from a single administration console."
"The only thing which I think should be improved is that training should be increased. In my position I also interview potential employees and I haven't found many people in the market, nowadays, who are familiar with the Check Point firewall. They are more familiar with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA and they are more comfortable with them."
"The source package is a bit more expensive than its competitors."
"The complexity could be fixed. It's a bit complex to set up, for example."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"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."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The scalability could be better."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The reports are very basic."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiGate 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 Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and SonicWall TZ. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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First of all, Check Point checks the rules to be configured before installing them in the firewall and this prevents the user from making mistakes and putting the company at risk.
Check Point is no longer expensive. It has many models and competes in performance and price vs. Fortinet.
Now web interfaces, like Fortinet, may have more bugs per top 10 OWASP.
We are using both but the GUI and clustering on the FortiGate side look better/easier/more comfortable.
And I do agree with others - Check Point is expensive and Fortinet FortiGate has many models offering less expensive implementation.
I have experience on both from Disti and channel experience. Please find below my comments (nothing new as such).
-Check Point GUI is a bit complicated,
-Application and Web filtering are better than Fortigate.
-IPS and AV are more effective than Fortigate. Overall more stable than any other firewall
Support: not up to the level like Fortigate and lack of trained resources (in the gulf).
Check Point is expensive.
Fortinet has many models and is more affordable than Check Point. It also provides outstanding support. GUI is more user-friendly.
We had this same discussion recently with my organization. It came down to the security of the platform.
Fortinet has had a number of breaches over the last 2 years and this was a key factor in our decision.
The challenge with Check Point will be the transition from our existing firewall and taking advantage of the various features across our organization.