We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"It can expand easily."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"It was very easy to install the solution, and the architecture meant we didn't have to worry about exceeding the solution's capacity."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The filtering is excellent."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"The solution needs to improve the interruptions that happen during gateway upgrades."
"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 connection to the on-premises management requires using the CLI. It's not just a click, and you cannot edit in the management to prepare everything. You need to do it online and in real time. After that, you must execute a script, and then you should be happy that it appears in the management."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"The filter settings are confusing and overly complicated. The user interface can be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". 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 SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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