We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Check Point UTM-1 [EOL], and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."What gives me the most value is undoubtedly the security that the anti-bot and anti-virus blades provide."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"It is giving us a greater reach for greater prevention and is proactively protecting our employees."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized management, which gives us control over all of the Check Point gateways."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the Quantum Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). I also like the solution's functionality, like autonomous threat prevention."
"It is a very friendly platform and easy to configure."
"With the outstanding capabilities of Check Point, we managed to have stable site-to-site VPNs with all our partners and with every other vendor's devices."
"The central management console has helped with segregation, where planned interventions with management consoles do not have any impact on production or critical business traffic."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"We find the GUI to be wrong and the CLI doesn't always show all of the connections."
"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."
"Error logs can be more specific."
"For the next release, we would like to have better ruleset cleanup tools that are already included."
"Check Point can improve a little better in their technical services, especially in the Indian market."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"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."
"The virtual environment is not stable at all. We have some customers who are using the virtual environment feature, and sometimes it crashes. We have many tickets open and the response is not as good as expected. We have to wait months for a resolution."
"The interface needs improvement."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"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."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
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