We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and SonicWall NSa 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."The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The best feature is the ability to increase the capacity of the solution by exactly what you add, not losing anything for High Availability."
"We do not have any problems with stability."
"The only area that Check Point still seems to excel in is their logging."
"The Network Address Translation (NAT) will always be a valuable feature as it allows me to turn my private cloud to the public at the click of a button and have secure control over the accessible servers/applications."
"Some of the most valuable features are URL filtering, web filtering, and content filtering."
"The ease of configuring VPNs can be very useful especially for companies with lots of remote locations."
"The Check Point architecture and packet are very good."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point NGFW is it is a complete solution for protecting not only the network but the applications. Additionally, it provides a hybrid cloud solution."
"The stability is better than other products."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"I like this solution because we are focused on VPN and have many brands that need to link a VPN and have security, like ransomware, spyware, and basic protection."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"The product is simple to manage."
"It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"It depends whether the problem is known to Check Point. If they are aware there is a problem, quite often it will then depend on which tech you finally land on if it's easier or harder to get to the root cause. The last issue was in India so that was pretty bad. It's easier if you get directly through to Tel Aviv or Ottawa, but you can't choose. Once they know what the issue is, it's pretty good. It pretty much depends on the engineer that you get. There are pretty good engineers and there are many engineers who are at just the starter level at Check Point who are not really into the stuff. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, depending on the problem and the tech engineer you get."
"The anti-spam needs improvement."
"Until you have some experience, the installation and configuration are difficult."
"It's expensive, but its price is reasonable looking at its functionality and power"
"The perimeter antivirus can be improved. It's not as good as other leaders."
"One of the main features that need improvement is the rule filter export."
"Something worth mentioning is the need for Spanish support and better representation for teams in the Latin American area."
"Geo-blocking would be very useful. There are too many attempts to infiltrate by non-country users. I can block access by IP address or IP network, however, a country-level blocking would be more useful and much quicker to implement."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"SonicWall NSa's reporting could be improved."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Sangfor NGAF, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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