We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and Fortinet Forticlient based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, users give Check Point Remote Access VPN higher ratings than Fortinet Forticlient because it offers more security, has good support available, and has proven to create a good ROI.
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN provides strong security features, including encryption, authentication, endpoint security, access control, and centralized management."
"Setting policies allow, block, and limit users' access."
"Our number of users working remotely vastly increased during the COVID 19 pandemic. Check Point Remote Access VPN allowed us to quickly make the transition from in-office to remote work."
"One of the most outstanding features is the ability to deliver third-party services and achieve double authenticity with integrated identities."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"The biggest advantage of Check Point Remote Access VPN is that we already use the Check Point firewall. We only needed to enable the feature and do the configuration in order to enable the VPN feature. We didn't need to buy or manage new hardware."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless access."
"The solution offers high scalability as far as adding more users."
"FortiClient's most valuable features are that it's easy to install and connect and has OTP on email IDs and two-factor authentication."
"The solution is very scalable. It just depends on the number of licenses an organization has. The enterprise management console is related to the number of clients, and the client interface itself is free to download."
"It's pretty stable, and I don't have any problems with it."
"You can scale the product."
"It is a stable solution."
"The VPN connection is the feature that I like the most."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiClient are ease of use and simple configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiClient is dual authentication and the VPN is secure."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"We are very happy with the Windows client. You log in with the VPN for the full client, you do the log in there. But for Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. It is important because we have some users that use Linux and they don't have a specific application from Check Point to use. That is something that could be improved."
"There is always room for innovation and the addition of new features."
"The maximum it is giving us is only 5 licenses and if you need more, they must be purchased separately."
"The Linux version may have an app (similar to Windows) instead of a shell script."
"Sometimes the application slows down the computing device, and this affects workflows."
"Sometimes it causes the consumption of machine resources, and also improves the scanning since they consume many resources in the clients' machines."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN handles up to a hundred megabytes for clients, but I want it to be able to handle up to one gigabyte."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"An area of improvement could be better integration with the active directory. I did not find it easy to configure."
"The licensing feature of the product requires improvement since whenever the license expires, the tool logs out its users automatically, irrespective of whether they are on the network or not, which can be problematic for me."
"The product's performance and pricing could be better."
"Fortinet needs to cover more areas where threats can come from."
"The price could also use improvement."
"They have an EDR feature for end protection detection and response, and this is actually with an add-on subscription, which is charged separately. What I would like to see is this included with the base cost."
"I would like to see an improvement in the web filter, because I think it can be more user-friendly."
"While we like patch management, it would be nice if it could handle patch management for other solutions, like Microsoft."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 6th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 60 reviews while Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 85 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange and Symantec VIP Access Manager, whereas Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Symantec Endpoint Security. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Fortinet FortiClient report.
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