We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The initial installation is very straightforward."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"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 is a very friendly platform and easy to configure."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"I was impressed by how easy it was to activate blades and implement them on a security gateway, with the process taking less than five minutes."
"Check Point definitely has a great architecture, where you can just enable the software blades and deploy a secure service. Overall, it provides ease of deployment and ease of use."
"The way in which a computer is immediately isolated if it starts behaving badly and I get a notification of an infected computer is also extremely nice and a great feature."
"I like the SmartEvent feature. When we see a threat, SmartEvent can create a rule for that. SmartEvent works with the SmartCenter to block a threat attack with a block monitor. The SmartCenter has the management for all the firewalls and data centers in a single dashboard."
"We can easily check firewall configurations against any compliance standard."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It should be user-friendly from an implementation point of view. Its setup is a little bit difficult."
"It would be nice if there is a mobile-friendly console for our techs."
"Identity Awareness has been a massive source of problems for our deployment and the ability to debug it has been lacking."
"Scalability should be improved."
"The policy installation length is still too long. It was promised that the time would be severely reduced in newer versions, but it is still too long."
"The current model is predominantly hardware appliance-based, which can incur substantial costs"
"The Antivirus feature is something that could be improved. We don't get much from the Antivirus update in comparison to their competitor's firewalls. It needs to be more advanced because Check Point is nowadays sent all over the world. Therefore, the Antivirus feature should be of very good quality and cover all virus checks. I would also like the Antivirus updates to be more frequent."
"The Check Point support needs a lot of improvement."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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