We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Its simplified management, enhanced remote support capabilities, and the ability to facilitate secure VPN connectivity for numerous offices and employees are highly beneficial."
"Check Point has given us the ability to comply with regulations and with capacities in a way that we never could before."
"One of the most valuable features is performance improvement, wherewith ClusterXL and CoreXL, you can improve performance."
"Provides very good performance."
"The only area that Check Point still seems to excel in is their logging."
"Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the powerful, deep packet inspection engine."
"By deploying Check Point, it has made it easier to manage everything from a single interface. The management dashboard and policies are on its single pane of glass."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The solution is stable."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"I find the simplicity to be most valuable."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"The IPS module is my favorite because of the security advantage reached with a few clicks and its automatic updates."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly."
"It is very versatile."
"It's a very simple solution to manage."
"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."
"I would like to see better Data Leakage protection options and easier-to-understand deployment models for this."
"When you want to open the gateway by double-clicking on the interface, sometimes it can cause silly problems such as freezing."
"The source package is a bit more expensive than its competitors."
"One thing to improve is the VSX gateway. It is quite complex to work with VSX and they are quite easy to break if you aren't familiar with them."
"Check Point NGFW needs to run marketing events. They have also to set up a support center in India."
"In the past year, we faced severe downtime that lasted many days due to a misconfiguration."
"The need to offer scheduled policy pushes in Smart Console."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration capability with SIEM tools, such as QRadar, and LogRhythm."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"The solution is fairly complex."
"The technical support is not very responsive and is an area that needs to be improved."
"The tool is expensive."
"We'd like to have more customization and easier customization of policies."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"If I could add one feature, it would be free security profiles."