We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"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."
"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."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The filtering was very good."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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