We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"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."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The filtering was very good."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the ease of use, IPS system, application filter, web filtering, and email security. Additionally, there is a migration tool that other vendors do not provide. We only need to upload the configuration file to the tool, and it converts everything, except the passwords, and gives us the new configuration, which we can directly upload on the firewall. This migration process takes a maximum of 15 minutes."
"The reporting is good."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"Web filtering and the IPS functionality."
"The ROI is good since I get free support."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The product can scale."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The interface needs improvement."
"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."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"We haven't attempted to scale the solution just yet. If we want to scale this solution we may have to look at other models. With certain requirements, we probably wouldn't be able to scale it so well as it is right now."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"It would be better if it could provide you with options before completely blocking anything through the web filter. If you are doing a deep SSL inspection on the site if it says it's expired, it doesn't give you the option to continue at your own risk. I can't say that it's bad, but SSL internally isn't really a requirement. However, its security features can help. Right now, we have people going out and spending on purchasing the SSL certificates for internal sites."
"Some issues with connecting to the VPN from home after firmware updates."
"We have experience stability issues, when the product sizing is wrong or on configuration errors."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"The costs could be lowered."
"SD-WAN could be enhanced to provide a clear division between control and data planes, utilizing controllers to manage tasks within the network."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "It's a solidly stable device with minimal downtime". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense.
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