We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution."
"Monitoring using SmartConsole and all its features is extremely easy, and I find SmartEvent an excellent monitoring tool for spotting threats and user behaviour."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud."
"The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"The support system could be improved."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"CloudGuard Network Security needs to include new features. One specific feature I would like to see is the ability to protect external resources using single sign-on integration with various identity providers, including custom identity providers. Its pricing could also be cheaper."
"The networking system updates, when delayed, can lead to misconfigurations and data loss."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"People don't know about the tool's features. There's a lack of skill. Users require more knowledge on how to integrate it into the cloud environment and orchestrate routing. So, it's not necessarily a CloudGuard Network Security or Check Point issue but more about integration, knowledge, and understanding."
"With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"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."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Illumio, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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