We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and SonicWall NSSP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"The solution is reliable."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"Its blades and VSLS (Virtual System Load Sharing) work fine."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"The challenge mainly revolves around the slower functionality of virtual IP switching in Azure Virtual Network compared to on-premise solutions. On-premise, switching between clusters is faster, taking only a few seconds, while in Azure, it can extend up to five minutes. The downtime is a concern for us."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"Its price is fair, but it can be more favorable."
"The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". 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 SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa.
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