We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Good load balancing feature."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Check Point NGFW provides a bunch of different products or Blades, as they call it in Check Point. The firewall engine is what we use the most but we also use the IPS IDS and Anti-Bot features. The solution provides many features."
"It filters unwanted traffic."
"We are delighted with the powerful management console and diagnostic tools."
"Its most significant strength lies in its superior threat detection engines."
"Check Point provides dedicated blades to monitor network traffic, which helps while troubleshooting network and packet-related issues."
"It provides a central station where it is very easy to deploy our firewall policy in one click to many firewalls. This is one of the leading perks. It saves time by having one central station because I can deploy the same kind of policy to many firewalls at once."
"One ability that Check Point has is that it is the first to provide us with the ability to use identities instead of using the traditional IP-based format, which allows way more flexibility in what we can do with the rule base."
"Check Point has a really cool GUI."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"One of the biggest disappointments is the GUI."
"In our particular case, we have different web applications developed by the same organization, however, that requires a specialized protection element such as a WAF. Having this service or feature within the same solution would be very valuable."
"The virtual infrastructure of the central management requires a huge amount of resources to work properly and manage all the logs without problems."
"The upgrading process takes too much time."
"It would be beneficial if Check Point included more licenses bundled with the base model, reducing the need for additional subscription charges for essential functionalities."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"I have had some issues in the past with the desktop client being slow to come up for logging in, and then slow to respond to screen changes, however, overall, it really hasn't been too bad."
"There needs to be more storage space for reporting."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Netgate pfSense. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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