We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"I think the VSX has been the most valuable feature for us."
"Check Point is able to satisfy almost any security tool for enterprise clients. This allows us to deploy complex changes from a single management interface, get better visibility, and significantly reduce operational complexity."
"It is giving us a greater reach for greater prevention and is proactively protecting our employees."
"The support offers the best services I have experienced. It's better than any other IT vendor."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and user interface. This is already a well-established product in the market for quite a long time, more than 20 years. They've got a huge customer base."
"It improves user productivity and frees up system resources."
"Some of the most valuable features are URL filtering, web filtering, and content filtering."
"It offers services like navigation, control, and filtering, which ensure that all users stay connected to business applications."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The filtering was very good."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The number of physical network ports on the device should be increased to allow for greater capacity."
"When installed on Windows, the system with low storage space slows down."
"Log queries are slow and take time to load."
"One of the main features that need improvement is the rule filter export."
"When it comes to Check Point's small business gateway series, there might be a need for hardware upgrades, as configuring them can sometimes be a bit challenging."
"VMware is not supported by the platform."
"Geo-blocking would be very useful. There are too many attempts to infiltrate by non-country users. I can block access by IP address or IP network, however, a country-level blocking would be more useful and much quicker to implement."
"They could improve by lowering prices."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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