We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point NGFW is highly regarded for its extensive security features, centralized management, and virtualization capabilities. SonicWall TZ distinguishes itself with its unified threat management, VPN capabilities, web security, and intuitive interface.
Check Point NGFW needs improvements in integration with other infrastructures, hardware upgrades, cost and pricing perspective, stability and security, setup process, load balancing capabilities, technical support, and reporting capabilities. SonicWall TZ requires improvements in rated throughput, secondary DNS hosting, cloud management, user interface, integration and flexibility, marketing and branding, reporting and licensing, additional ports, GSM and Sonic Analyzer features, advanced features and pricing, load balancing and data filtering, DLP integration, reporting analytics and user support, affordability and competition, and support and automation.
Service and Support: The feedback on Check Point NGFW's customer service varies, with some customers appreciating its helpful and responsive nature, while others believe there is room for improvement. SonicWall TZ's support is deemed satisfactory, although there have been instances of language difficulties and delays in assistance.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point NGFW can be complex and may require specialized knowledge and experience for certain configurations and migrations. The initial setup for SonicWall TZ is described as simple, direct, and user-friendly, with a seamless out-of-the-box experience.
Pricing: Based on the feedback, Check Point NGFW is known for its high setup cost, however, it provides flexible licensing options. SonicWall TZ has mixed reviews regarding its pricing and setup cost. That said, it is considered fairly priced for medium-sized companies. There are extra fees associated with its cloud management capabilities.
Comparison Results: Check Point NGFW is the preferred product over SonicWall TZ. Users appreciate Check Point NGFW's comprehensive security features, centralized management, virtualization capabilities, stability, ease of use, and scalability. They also value its ability to protect against next-generation attacks and its strong security features. Users consider the customer service and support for Check Point NGFW to be superior.
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"I was impressed by how easy it was to activate blades and implement them on a security gateway, with the process taking less than five minutes."
"The SmartView monitor and SmartReporter help us to monitor and report on traffic."
"The Next Generation Firewalls, the 64000 and 44000 series, provide us with support for large data centers and telco environments. They're quite reliable and provide great performance."
"The sales, pre-sales, professional services, and tech support are all very nice."
"The management in Check Point is exceptional."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The threat emulation blade and user identity awareness feature has helped us a lot in terms of perimeter security and have given us granular visibility of user access."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"They could make the licensing a bit easier to deal with, especially for enterprise-level options."
"If you have the standard support level, sometimes they take a long time to understand or even give you a solution or good workaround to a problematic situation."
"The software licensing model is too complicated with all the various tiers of SKUs (i.e. per software blade). They need to simplify this for easier purchasing and renewing."
"It's expensive, but its price is reasonable looking at its functionality and power"
"The product or services can be improved from the cost and the pricing perspective."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier, as we have multiple dependencies and auditors are forced to have the latest possible environments."
"Sometimes debugging is a hassle."
"One feature I have yet to see implemented is authenticated email support for alerts generated via the GW or SMS."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"The price could be better for us in Bolivia."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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