We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The interface is very good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Only allows authorized connections and prevents vulnerabilities in a network."
"The most valuable features are application control, regulation, and threat prevention."
"All policies can be deployed and managed in a very simple way."
"The application control and URL filtering features are valuable since they allow very granular control of what is coming in and out of a network."
"It is easy to use, and its management is the best. Check Point has a great unified management solution for firewalls and security products."
"Check Point is more expensive but easier to manage, and their presales and after-sale support are way better than Fortinet's."
"One of the valuable characteristics of Check Point NGFW is that it presents very centralized management."
"The support offers the best services I have experienced. It's better than any other IT vendor."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"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."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"There's a significant area for improvement when it comes to pricing."
"The study material for Check Point needs to be improved, as well as the cost for certification."
"The antivirus Check Point offers could be better when compared to competitors' firewalls. Updates should be more frequent."
"I'd like to see more use of applications and URLs in security policies moving forwards."
"Integration with a third-party authentication mechanism is tricky and needs to be planned well."
"It can be expensive, especially for small businesses."
"Check Point NGFW Firewall requires frequent updates to build more user-friendly dashboards."
"The naming in the inline layers and ordered layers needs improvement. It makes things very complicated. I've seen quite a lot of people saying that. For audit policies, it is okay since it's very simple to see. However, this area is for very large organizations, which have too many policies, and they need to share all these policies. For small to medium-sized businesses, they don't need it. Even if somebody has 500 rules, if they try to use it, it can be very confusing."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. 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 Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with .
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