We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"It improves user productivity and frees up system resources."
"It is easy to use, and its management is the best. Check Point has a great unified management solution for firewalls and security products."
"Some of the most valuable features are URL filtering, web filtering, and content filtering."
"Admins and executives are more at ease with the compliance engine within the software as it measures how many of the security requirements we're compliant with, making their work much more accessible from that standpoint."
"The different hardware models focus on a wide spectrum of the market, so any company can choose a model that makes sense for them from the range."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point NGFW is it is a complete solution for protecting not only the network but the applications. Additionally, it provides a hybrid cloud solution."
"The most valuable feature is the Stateful Inspection, which was developed by Check Point."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It performs very well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"All features are useful. We are using premium features such as bandwidth sharing, failover, web filters, SSL controls, antivirus, and VPN. We use these features to the fullest. These features are available in the paid firewall license, not the free one."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"The interface is very good."
"What I like about this product, which is the reason that we continue to use it, is that you can install the software version on your own hardware. In case there is a problem with the hardware, we can just install the firewall in another machine and restore the configuration."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"NG Firewalls allow us to permit or deny applications we don't want to run. We also use content filtering, SSL inspection, and all the other things we run on the firewall to keep our clients protected and ensure they're not going where they shouldn't. It's a great firewall that works as intended."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"We looked very closely at ArcSight's solution because it's a multi-vendor solution. With ArcSight we could have Check Point, we could have RSA, we could have any brand and integrate several brands, from a security point of view. With Check Point, you cannot do so, you can integrate with Check Point products."
"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."
"When you want to open the gateway by double-clicking on the interface, sometimes it can cause silly problems such as freezing."
"Reporting has to be improved."
"The antivirus is not as effective as it could be because updates are not that frequent."
"Check Point needs to work on hardware problems also."
"One of my issues with Check Point is the stability. There have been too many bugs, over the years, when I compare them with other vendors. Their QA team should do better work before releasing their GA versions."
"One feature I have yet to see implemented is authenticated email support for alerts generated via the GW or SMS."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"The hardware can be improved."
"We seek the availability of the hardware in our region. The hardware-based firewall from Untangle is currently not available in our region. It should have threat protection on a real-time basis. This feature, available in Check Point and Sandstorm kind of scenario, is currently missing in Untangle NG Firewall."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
