We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"The customer service and support team are excellent."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"The main features I find useful are intrusion prevention and web filtering. Additionally, the solution is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"While Check Point does offer some VWAN offerings, they appear to be more static and less tailored to cloud-native environments compared to Palo Alto's dynamic and flexible approach."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"The solution needs to support more hypervisors."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"The convergence time between cluster members is still not perfect. It's far away from what we get in traditional appliances. If a company wants to move mission-critical applications for an environment to the cloud, it somehow has to accept that it could have downtime of up to 40 seconds, until cluster members switch virtual IP addresses between themselves and start accepting the traffic. That is a little bit too high in my opinion. It's not fully Check Point's fault, because it's a hybrid mechanism with AWS. The blame is 50/50."
"It would be better if AWS instances were available. If I want to upgrade from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available rather than having a big instance and paying a lot of money for that. The issue is that we had deployed in AWS Cloud, and we were using a very small instance. Recently we wanted to move in-house and deploy it on the big instance because it was struggling with the RAM. If we use T2.small, we cannot upgrade it to the T2.medium. It has predefined instances in the marketplace with a lot of cost differences. If I can increase the RAM, I have to choose the T3.large instance. If I'm paying $270 for the small instance, I have to pay more than double the cost for T3.large. It is about $850, and this is not good. So, it would be better if it was cheaper. I think both AWS and Fortinet should think about that. They should provide it on lower instances as well. If I want to upgrade it from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available, but it's a problem."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"They need to integrate more with the SD-WAN."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"I would like to see the features of FortiAnalyzer included in Fortinet FortiOS. Right now, you're required to have an additional license and a different device for features such as processing the log, reporting, and analyzing traffic."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 112 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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