We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"The most effective features for threat prevention are application-based prevention and WildFire. These features cover various threats, such as ransomware, malware, etc. They provide real-time visibility. By applying appropriate policies, threats can be blocked."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"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 user interface could use some improvement."
"It would be good if the common features work consistently in physical and virtual environments. There was an integration issue in the virtual deployment where it didn't report the interface counters, and we had to upgrade to the latest version, whereas the same thing has been working in the physical deployment for ages now. It seems that it was because of Azure. We were using VMware before, and we didn't have any such issues. We do see such small issues where we expect things to work, but they don't because of some incompatibilities. There also seems to be a limitation on how to do high availability in a virtualized environment. All features should be consistently available in physical and virtual environments. It is not always easy to integrate Palo Alto in the network management system. We would like to be able to compare two network management systems. They can maybe allow monitoring an interface through the GUI to create a reference or do a baseline check about whether your network monitoring system is actually giving you the correct traffic figures. You need traffic figures to be able to recognize the trends and plan the capacity."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN 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 Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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