We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Zscaler Internet Access 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."Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"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 configuration is one of the best features of this product."
"The packet inspections have been a strong point."
"Check Point has a centralized console that makes it possible to manage all the deployed equipment. It also has a built-in VPN service that lets users connect through VPN to our organization, which facilitates teleworking while cutting off unauthorized access to the organization's internal network."
"There are several ways to implement it."
"The characteristics on offer have come to give an added value under a single investment, thus offering many advantages."
"It is always on the top of the list of best firewall solutions."
"The Check Point firewall features for Next Generation Firewalls are excellent."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"Zscaler Internet Access has helped us reduce the time that we spend managing security policies by about four hours a week. We can use this time to focus on other things, especially the IT team."
"Tech support is good."
"The protection is most valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten...The setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features I found in Zscaler Internet Access are the restriction of users for a particular URL, the security feature related to stopping DDoS, and the VPN."
"All internet access flows through the Zscaler proxy, regardless of whether people are in office or remote. I have greater control site access and I minimize the number of compromises that we experience to almost none."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The support system could be improved."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"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."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The user interface for management could be improved."
"The study material for Check Point needs to be improved, as well as the cost for certification."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to manage a cloud firewall with the same console. That would be very helpful."
"Until you have some experience, the installation and configuration are difficult."
"The debugging of VPN tunnels is very stressful."
"It will be good if the product is rack-mounted."
"The naming in the inline layers and ordered layers needs improvement. It makes things very complicated. I've seen quite a lot of people saying that. For audit policies, it is okay since it's very simple to see. However, this area is for very large organizations, which have too many policies, and they need to share all these policies. For small to medium-sized businesses, they don't need it. Even if somebody has 500 rules, if they try to use it, it can be very confusing."
"I would like there to be a way to run packets that capture more easily in the GUI environment. Right now, if we want to read packet captures, we have to do so from the command line."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"They could provide more time for the onboarding the training of an IT person."
"It also needs better integration with other applications as well. There are some restrictions."
"I would like to see more training and video documentation."
"Zscaler Internet Access needs to integrate more ISPs. It is good to have more than three ISPs."
"Cloud App’s database should be improved."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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