We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The ease of configuring VPNs can be very useful especially for companies with lots of remote locations."
"The dashboard provides a quick overview of the security status, including key metrics, alerts, and recent events."
"It filters unwanted traffic."
"The Next Generation Firewalls, the 64000 and 44000 series, provide us with support for large data centers and telco environments. They're quite reliable and provide great performance."
"I like the SmartEvent feature. When we see a threat, SmartEvent can create a rule for that. SmartEvent works with the SmartCenter to block a threat attack with a block monitor. The SmartCenter has the management for all the firewalls and data centers in a single dashboard."
"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."
"The small business hardware device was powerful and easy to set up."
"One of the most valuable features is performance improvement, wherewith ClusterXL and CoreXL, you can improve performance."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"There needs to be a Mac version of the Smart Console."
"One of the biggest disappointments is the GUI."
"Debugging could be improved when compared to the competition."
"Finding support is a little bit hard."
"The routing rules and some more network settings should be listed on the Check Point Smart Console instead of GAIA Web GUI."
"The exterior of the physical device can be improved with the use of a display and not just simple lights."
"There is no email security."
"It would be nice if there is a mobile-friendly console for our techs."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while McAfee StoneGate [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 StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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