We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-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."It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The filtering was very good."
"The solution is very robust."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"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."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"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."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point UTM-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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