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."The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"In the four years I have worked on the five firewalls we have not had any downtime caused by stability issues."
"The most valuable features are the security blades and the ease of managing the policies, searching log for events, and correlating them."
"We have not had any issues with the firewall."
"One of the most valuable features is performance improvement, wherewith ClusterXL and CoreXL, you can improve performance."
"The scalability is very good."
"Remote access with a secure workspace provides a clear separation between the client and corporate network."
"Check Point provides dedicated blades to monitor network traffic, which helps while troubleshooting network and packet-related issues."
"Check Point is more expensive but easier to manage, and their presales and after-sale support are way better than Fortinet's."
"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."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The filtering was very good."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The support system could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"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 product could provide an easier user interface and management, by combining all functions (network and policy configuration) into one single application rather than split it into different applications."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"Sometimes when they bring on new upgrades, they affect something else."
"The predefined reports are few and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"Some features, like the VPN, antispam, data loss prevention, etc., are managed in an external console. In the future, I'd like all features in the same console, in one place, where we can see and configure all features."
"In the past year, we faced severe downtime that lasted many days due to a misconfiguration."
"The web UI for VSX could be better."
"They have few predefined reports and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"The interface needs improvement."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
Earn 20 points
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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