We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The technical support is great."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The Check Point appliances are considered NGFW devices and can process both the ASA and FTD requirements on a single instance, removing the requirement for an expansion SSD module and/or additional hardware."
"Only allows authorized connections and prevents vulnerabilities in a network."
"Check Point NGFW is easy to use, flexible and provides good performance. The security of the product is excellent, we do not have to do a lot of patching or upgrades because of vulnerabilities."
"The spoofing prevention feature is the most valuable feature."
"It's enabled us to move away from basic LAN to LAN segmentation to a more powerful user separation approach."
"It is easy to configure and it is a valuable antivirus protection. I especially like the IPS feature of this product."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"Check Point has given us the ability to comply with regulations and with capacities in a way that we never could before."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"There is room for improvement in application-based filtering, as with other firewalls available in the market today."
"The exterior of the physical device can be improved with the use of a display and not just simple lights."
"The pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered - we found it to be quite expensive to purchase, and to maintain (the licenses and the support services need to be prolonged regularly)."
"There is nothing more that I need in terms of improvement."
"Internet load balancing provides either active/passive or active/active load balancing, however, I would like to see more options that provide SD-WAN capabilities while also allowing for more than two links."
"Something worth mentioning is the need for Spanish support and better representation for teams in the Latin American area."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Management: Check Point should move away from its current architecture wherein it mandatorily requires a management server to manage the gateways. They should develop A feature in the gateway itself so that no management server is needed for policy and gateway management."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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