We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and Fortinet FortiGate IPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Check Point offers DDoS and endpoint protection called EDR or XDR, so it provides a holistic security architecture for any organization."
"The reports are well written so that you can understand what type of attack has occurred, the originating IP address, and other details."
"The number of the IPS protections is amazing - after the latest update I see more than 11000 in the SmartConsole."
"The possibility of customizing the rules is great."
"It is also worth noting that many IPS signature comes with detailed background about the vulnerability, and potentially how the vulnerability would affect the network security."
"The notifications are the most valuable feature of the solution."
"IPS easily allows follow-up flags on recently updated patterns. If, in rare cases, a false positive does occur, it is quickly detected and an exception can be easily created."
"The Check Point IPS module allows me granularity in creating rules."
"Provides good VPN capabilities."
"I have found the decryption of Fortinet FortiGate IPS very good. It's called SSL deep inspection, it's working very well. This is how you decrypt access and traffic, and it is through the IPS antivirus center. Additionally, the UI is user-friendly."
"Its interface is the most valuable. It is quite easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are security and vision, and all of the UTM functionality."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are the dashboard and reporting which give us very good visibility."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The product has an inbuilt IPS software. We can configure it to block specific anonymous attacks that are happening."
"Sometimes we had false positives where packages that were legitimate for us were blocked and we had to unblock them through exceptions."
"In my opinion, the Check Point software engineers should works on the performance of the blade - when it is activated with the big number of the protections in place, the monitoring shows us the significant increase in the CPU utilization for the gateway appliances - up to 30 percents, even so we are cherry-picking only the profiles that we really needed."
"We have a lot of false positives and the list of IPs are not up to date in terms of their location."
"The tool's pricing could be better."
"The cost is high."
"Despite being a blade, this is expensive."
"Sometimes protections are 'aggregated' into a single threat name when you look at the logs. I would prefer to see all protections named individually (for example, right now, 'web enforcement' is a category that contains several signatures)."
"Having additional reports available would be helpful."
"The dashboard is not user friendly so is a bit complicated."
"The interface could be better."
"The IPS monitoring can be improved."
"The solution could maybe use more integration with artificial intelligence to be more proactive."
"To stay ahead of the competition Fortinet FortiGate IPS needs to think about how to adjust pricing."
"The customization is a little bit difficult."
"Fortinet FortiGate IPS could improve the configuration. In some use cases, there can be some configuration conflicts."
"I have contacted the support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS. The service was good but the speed could be better."
Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 45 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT, whereas Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB. See our Check Point IPS vs. Fortinet FortiGate IPS report.
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