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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Check Point has an awesome price-to-benefit ratio, netting you an awesome throughput of IDS/IPS capability compared to Palo Alto, Cisco, and so on."
"Check Point NGFW has helped us to significantly reduce our risk of cyberattacks by providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing attacks, and zero-day threats."
"My favorite feature is the UTM piece and that was the main reason we bought it. It helps us to fine tune the network."
"The technical services always replied in a very fast and effective way."
"Being able to search in clear text is simple for the customer and for troubleshooting an environment."
"It's really simple to set up."
"We are delighted with the powerful management console and diagnostic tools."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"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 logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There needs to be a Mac version of the Smart Console."
"Without any training, it is very hard to administrate the whole Check Point NGFW."
"There are issues with stability while upgrading devices with hotfixes."
"It will be good if the product is rack-mounted."
"We find the GUI to be wrong and the CLI doesn't always show all of the connections."
"In terms of new features, maybe it would help if we could start to manage all the stuff in the cloud and not in the on-prem servers. The management side could also be faster when you install policies. But other than that, I'm satisfied."
"The price of this product could be improved."
"The firewall should be easily deployable and scalable in any major cloud environment and enable an organization’s security team to manage all of its security settings from a single console."
"People are less aware of Palo Alto."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 278 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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