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"It is a safe product."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The solution is stable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"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."
"It needs more available central management."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"The costs are high."
"The solution is not that flexible when deploying on-prem."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"I think they have pretty much mastered what can be done. There are some nuances like when you fail over from one cluster member to the other, the external IP address takes about two minutes to fail over."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The deployment model could be better."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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