We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Check Point's most useful feature is threat prevention and extraction. It was tough to manage seven firewalls and a perimeter solution for IPS, anti-malware, anti-bot, and sandboxing."
"The interface and the IPS intrusion prevention are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It provides a central station where it is very easy to deploy our firewall policy in one click to many firewalls. This is one of the leading perks. It saves time by having one central station because I can deploy the same kind of policy to many firewalls at once."
"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing this solution we have to rely on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewall that we had configured on switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently not an efficient for protecting from advanced threats."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"The platform helps our organization to save working hours."
"The Anti-Spoofing has the ability to monitor the interfaces. Suppose any spoofed IP addresses are coming from an external interface, it won't allow them. It will drop that traffic. You have two options with the Anti-Spoofing: prevent or detect. If any kind of spoof traffic is coming through the external interface, we can prevent that."
"The support offers the best services I have experienced. It's better than any other IT vendor."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The only reasons we are looking at other solutions are price and integration."
"It's too expensive for mid-market companies."
"It would be great if the access management, the user management features, were improved in terms of the number of users that can be connected, and how users can access the various resources with the help of firewall authentication."
"It would be nice to add more features to the WatchTower app to be able to perform certain administrative functions without the need for local access."
"The only thing which I think should be improved is that training should be increased. In my position I also interview potential employees and I haven't found many people in the market, nowadays, who are familiar with the Check Point firewall. They are more familiar with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA and they are more comfortable with them."
"There needs to be more storage space for reporting."
"In our particular case, we have different web applications developed by the same organization, however, that requires a specialized protection element such as a WAF. Having this service or feature within the same solution would be very valuable."
"Support cases have been generated several times, and it takes time for the case to be resolved."
"The reports are very basic."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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