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."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."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The solution is very robust."
"The filtering was very good."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"We generally use it because it's cheap. When we need something more robust we use Barracuda and Sony Wireless Routers. For certain clients, we use pfSense because it's compatible with the VoIP platform."
"The interface is straightforward and easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"The VPN is my favorite feature."
"A free firewall that is a good network security appliance."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The solution is very expensive."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"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."
"The interface needs improvement."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"The stability could be improved."
"It could use a little bit of improvement in the reporting."
"The main problem with pfSense is that we have to use proxy solutions."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
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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