We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and WatchGuard Firebox 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 most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"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."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"The scalability is very good."
"Check Point is able to satisfy almost any security tool for enterprise clients. This allows us to deploy complex changes from a single management interface, get better visibility, and significantly reduce operational complexity."
"One of the solution's best features include a packet-filtering firewall that examines packets in isolation."
"Within the organization, the inspection of packages has given us great help in detecting traffic that may be a threat to the institution."
"The Threat Management feature makes it very easy to detect the vulnerabilities and other factors. We can make new policy according to it. Policy creation is very simple in Check Point. Because the logs are very good in Check Point Firewall, this reduces our work with the reports that we are getting from the Threat Management. It is very convenient for us to use the reports to make new policies for security and other things."
"The central management and logging are frankly one of the top selling points."
"In addition to the different security features that Check Point security solutions have, their integration with other technologies makes the security environment a complete security type."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The most valuables feature of WatchGuard Firebox are the VPNs, and web filtering where we can stop users from going to malicious sites."
"The security that is used for defending from the attacks is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, especially the real-time bandwidth usage report. Also, its integration with WiFi access points is nice."
"The product's usability is good. It is straightforward and simple. One of the benefits is that it is easy to navigate and intuitive."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Two of the functionalities we use most are the traffic monitoring and the full panel dashboard. Those are two things that are very useful for us... In addition, it provides us with layered security. It allows us to determine what types of access, to which networks, we want to allow or deny."
"The most valuable features of this solution are live logging, rule setup and maintenance, and VPN creation."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The web UI for VSX could be better."
"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."
"Support for customers really needs to improve."
"Several security modules are based on HTTPS inspection, losing a relevant security capability if you don't implement it in your network."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"The distributor support capability is quite lacking as the problem/incident is rarely solved on the distributor level and instead escalated to the principal."
"The virtual environment is not stable at all. We have some customers who are using the virtual environment feature, and sometimes it crashes. We have many tickets open and the response is not as good as expected. We have to wait months for a resolution."
"The cost of add-on features is too high."
"The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good."
"I believe there is a need for additional measures to connect mobile devices securely to the Firebox router."
"Sometimes, the writing rules are a little confusing in how am I doing them."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"Last year, I had an issue with one of the Fireboxes going down. It was overheated, because my server room became overheated and this fried it."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"We were able to take from an older configuration, build a new one quickly, and get it up and running, which didn't take long, but there was some pain around it."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Check Point NGFW vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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