We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The support offers the best services I have experienced. It's better than any other IT vendor."
"Policy configuration has been consistent over the years, so there is not much of a learning curve as upgrades are released."
"We found a very successful implementation of the virtual private network client, since, for some time now, everyone has been working from home."
"They have very good support. In critical scenarios, they provide us very quick solutions, are very well-trained, and have a good knowledge about the product. That is what we expect from them."
"The centrally managed firewalls are great."
"The technical services always replied in a very fast and effective way."
"We can decipher the activity of each connection and see what is inside it."
"It improves user productivity and frees up system resources."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"Palo Alto's App-ID is what differentiates it from other competitors."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"Palo Alto has an approach that makes the configuration easier not only for the customers but also for the IT help for the customers."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is its management abilities. Additionally, the updates are very good."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"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."
"This product has room for improvement in technical support for Africa."
"The perimeter antivirus can be improved. It's not as good as other leaders."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive. In the pricing structure, however, they need improvement."
"Internet load balancing provides either active/passive or active/active load balancing, however, I would like to see more options that provide SD-WAN capabilities while also allowing for more than two links."
"While the logs are very good and easy to understand, when you want to download these customized logs, they don't have as many features compared to competitive firewalls."
"Currently, upgrades are quite cumbersome."
"The upgrade is something we would like to be improved in the future as the frequency of hotfixes is too much, and by the time we finish the one round, we already have the new version released and are required to upgrade."
"Until you have some experience, the installation and configuration are difficult."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"They could improve by providing more features in the solution."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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