We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"No negative impression of the scalability."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"We have experienced some issues with SonicWall TZ and they are lacking some advanced features other vendors have."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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