We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"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."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"Good basic firewall features."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"Firewall system for small, medium, and large data networks. It allows you to provide security to your environment: DMZ networks, LAN, WAN, etc."
"We've found the stability to be very good overall."
"The built-in open VPN and the VPN Client Export are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Sophos Intercept X is scalable. Currently, we have almost 30 people using it in our company."
"The "OpenVPN Client Export" package is really helpful in exporting the VPN client software on most popular devices: iOS/Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and a handful of SIP handsets."
"Its price could be better."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"The interface needs improvement."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"If you want to take advantage of all of the solution's options, you need to have a bit of a technical background. It's not for a layperson."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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