We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Stormshield Network Security 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."The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"I love the interface of R.80.30. The R.80 interface is very nicely thought out with everything in one place, which makes Check Point easier to use."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"Check Point's Quantum helps our clients in their overall cybersecurity practice."
"We have all the features we want or need in this appliance. It's been good so far."
"The small business hardware device was powerful and easy to set up."
"The VPN tunnels are very effective in terms of stability and quick connection."
"I like the Next-Generation Firewall."
"It is a very friendly platform and easy to configure."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"A very robust product."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"I like how you can configure the rules. There is the task for the rules and a task for the network configuration. It also provides SMD filtering, and it can be integrated with the active directory for the users, their mission, and the VPN configuration. We are here in Sudan, and Stormshield didn't work in Sudan for more than a decade. Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain. I am just working with the firewall solution, and we don't have any other solutions like endpoint solutions or something like that."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"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 support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Debugging could be improved when compared to the competition."
"I hope for product simplification. It would be better to use one security console, instead of many of them (for licensing and monitoring). The solution is hard for newcomers and takes much time to deep in. Also, I want a historical graph for throughput and system resources usage. Maybe it will be great to make easy step-by-step installation and configuration cookbooks as Fortinet did, and integrate the documentation within the solution."
"While it does enhance network security, it tends to consume substantial resources, including CPU, memory, and storage."
"There is no clear way to report incorrect classification to support and a business is neither happy nor forgiving when they cannot receive mail from a crucial business partner."
"Initially, we faced a few challenges with firmware. Later this was addressed with jumbo hotfixes."
"The predefined reports are few and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"Although the GUI is simple to use and fairly comprehensive, more support via CLI would be beneficial for bulk operations."
"There is nothing more that I need in terms of improvement."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"This solution has a big problem with web filtering and it needs to be improved."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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