We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"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 pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The simplicity of the access control is the most valuable feature for us. It gives us the ability to easily identify traffic that is either being allowed or denied to our network."
"Remote access with a secure workspace provides a clear separation between the client and corporate network."
"The SmartView monitor and SmartReporter help us to monitor and report on traffic."
"We have not had any issues with the firewall."
"The firewall feature and DDoS Protector, when turned on, keep away attacks from the outside. They also prevent users from accessing things on the Internet that they are not supposed to access."
"It's scalable and provides end-to-end resolution."
"They utilize various gateway features, including Identity as a Service (IDaaS), anti-spam, antivirus, and other security measures, effectively creating a robust defense against a wide range of potential risks."
"There are several ways to implement it."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"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 would like to see better pricing."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The area where Check Point can improve is the antivirus, as it only provides a small number of updates for it. Updates should be more frequent."
"It should allow more than two internet providers in its configuration of "ISP Redundancy"."
"We looked very closely at ArcSight's solution because it's a multi-vendor solution. With ArcSight we could have Check Point, we could have RSA, we could have any brand and integrate several brands, from a security point of view. With Check Point, you cannot do so, you can integrate with Check Point products."
"One area which is still lacking is the site-to-site VPN solution."
"The management of memory in the hardware needs to improve. They have had a lot of issues with memory leakage."
"A lot of things need to be improved in Check Point NGFW. One, their support team isn't very efficient and useful."
"Finding support is a little bit hard."
"Potential improvements could be made around simplifying VPN functionality and configuration."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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