We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The biggest thing is the central management. It is quite good and allows us to manage the different firewalls from it. We can implement and configure many firewalls and push our policies to them as well."
"Check Point NGFW provides a bunch of different products or Blades, as they call it in Check Point. The firewall engine is what we use the most but we also use the IPS IDS and Anti-Bot features. The solution provides many features."
"The Smart Dashboard and other user interfaces are very easy to use and can be handled without any significant IT skills."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point NGFW is the unparalleled distribution of the network traffic. The central management station they have allows you to manage everything from one place."
"On the firewall side, the security efficacy is good."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"The VPN tunnels are very effective in terms of stability and quick connection."
"Making configuring numerous layers of security policies easy to use was always one of the things I liked most about their firewall solution."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Technical support has been good."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"They have few predefined reports and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"Check Point's study materials should be provided by the company directly and be of very good quality. This is not provided right now and something that the company can improve."
"For R80.10 and above, if you want to install a hotfix, then you can't install it through the GUI. I don't know why. In the earlier days, I was able to do the installation of hotfixes through the GUI. Now, Check Point said that you have to install hotfixes through the CLI. If that issue could be resolved, then it would be great because the GUI is more handy than the CLI."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"Check Point Smart Dashboard does not support my Apple MacBook Air. It only supports Windows versions."
"The web UI for VSX could be better."
"For the next release, we would like to have better ruleset cleanup tools that are already included."
"Although Check Point provides annual updates to the Gaia platform, integration with other OEMs is difficult."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN 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 VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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