We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Fortinet FortiDDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"When browsing, it scans sites to ensure that they are safe and that no harm can be caused."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"The product's initial setup phase was really easy."
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds."
"Among its key features: Detects and mitigates DDoS attacks at L3 to L7; negligible to zero false-positives; Generates and sends reports without the need for an expensive third-party solution."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The costs are high."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"The tool needs to focus more on the area of application traffic management, where it currently has some shortcomings."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The only thing they need to do is to automate it. Today, you must create tools that do not require the use of an expert or anyone with special skills."
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved."
"There aren't really any aspects of the solution we are unhappy with. It's been a positive experience overall."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, VMware NSX, Radware DefensePro, Fortinet FortiWeb and Edgio Global CDN.
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