We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The activation of additional features is very easy and well documented."
"On the firewall side, the security efficacy is good."
"I think that the most valuable feature is the prevention of known and zero-day threats because they are constantly trying to access your company and compromise its data."
"The best feature is the ability to increase the capacity of the solution by exactly what you add, not losing anything for High Availability."
"The only area that Check Point still seems to excel in is their logging."
"If there is a critical issue observed, the Check Point support team can create a custom package that we can deploy on the gateway to mitigate critical issues/bug fixes."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"Being able to access almost everything in one location manage all your gateways and get all your logs is great."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"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."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"There is a huge amount of revenue lost in the financial/banking sector due to cyber attacks, so we need to have something that can highly concentrate on future cyber attacks."
"Sometimes debugging is a hassle."
"They should integrate all blades to use a single policy rather than multiple."
"The support team should be faster."
"The area where Check Point can improve is the antivirus, as it only provides a small number of updates for it. Updates should be more frequent."
"It depends whether the problem is known to Check Point. If they are aware there is a problem, quite often it will then depend on which tech you finally land on if it's easier or harder to get to the root cause. The last issue was in India so that was pretty bad. It's easier if you get directly through to Tel Aviv or Ottawa, but you can't choose. Once they know what the issue is, it's pretty good. It pretty much depends on the engineer that you get. There are pretty good engineers and there are many engineers who are at just the starter level at Check Point who are not really into the stuff. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, depending on the problem and the tech engineer you get."
"Something worth mentioning is the need for Spanish support and better representation for teams in the Latin American area."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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