We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It has allowed us to grow in a safe way and in accordance with our particular needs."
"Remote access with a secure workspace provides a clear separation between the client and corporate network."
"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."
"The user interface is very cool and easy to use."
"The tool provides great security."
"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing this solution we have to rely on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewall that we had configured on switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently not an efficient for protecting from advanced threats."
"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."
"Check Point has a lot of features. The ones I love are the antivirus, intrusion prevention, and data loss prevention. Apart from that, there is central management through which we can integrate all the firewalls and support them. It makes it easy to manage all the firewalls."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"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."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The antivirus is less effective than its competitors' antivirus. The antivirus is good, but in other firewalls, such as Palo Alto, it's quite effective. Check Point should provide more output. Sometimes it provides comprehensive information and sometimes it doesn't."
"Although the GUI is simple to use and fairly comprehensive, more support via CLI would be beneficial for bulk operations."
"The policy installation module should be improved."
"I would like to see Check Point add more cloud management features and better integration with LAN software-defined networking."
"There are some issues compared to other products. Ease of use is one."
"I would like to see an improvement of built-in monitoring capabilities such as throughput. Practically visualization of CPview outputs into beautiful pink GUI will do it."
"Improvement regarding the expansion of the SMS's compatibility to include various virtualization environments would be beneficial."
"The technical support is really poor. We have to wait for approximately 48 hours sometimes for a simple solution."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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