We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides important capabilities such as VPN, intrusion prevention, website filtering, and application control. SonicWall TZ offers comprehensive threat management, VPN functionality, web protection, and IPsec VPN.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has areas that need improvement in terms of support system, features, data protection visibility, DLP, architecture, integration, cost, documentation, and flexibility. SonicWall TZ also requires improvements in areas such as throughput, DNS hosting, cloud management, user interface, integration, marketing, reporting, scalability, ports, GSM and Sonic Analyzer, advanced features, load balancing, DPI-SSL clients, content filtering, DNS hosting, technical support, VPN connections, and pricing.
Service and Support: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has garnered varying opinions regarding its customer service. Certain customers appreciate the technical support provided, whereas others express dissatisfaction with the response time. SonicWall TZ also receives mixed feedback, as some customers find the support to be satisfactory, while others encounter delays and language barriers.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is described as straightforward and may necessitate technical proficiency. Setting up SonicWall TZ is effortless, instinctive, and can be finished in a few hours.
Pricing: The cost of setting up Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is often seen as high, however, some users find it justifiable and efficient in terms of expenses. Opinions on the pricing of SonicWall TZ are mixed, with some considering it cost-effective while others believe there is room for improvement.
ROI: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a higher return on investment, ranging from 80% to 85%, and has shown continuous improvement since implementation. It enables consolidation and standardization, simplifying management processes. SonicWall TZ is suggested for superior performance and is regarded as an essential element for ensuring network security.
Comparison Results: Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the preferred option when compared to SonicWall TZ. Users appreciate Check Point's effortless and straightforward initial setup. Check Point also offers a wider range of valuable features, including VPN, IPS, URL filtering, and application control.
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
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"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"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 scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away."
"The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"The most valuable features have been content filtering, and the interface is easy to navigate and to use."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"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."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"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."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The product can still grow."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"In future releases, I would like to see the data loss prevention (DLP) feature could scale along with the virtual machine scale sets."
"The costs are high."
"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."
"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."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"I would like them to make the interface a little bit easier to use so you can find out where in the heck you're going instead of having to go to 15 different places to get something installed."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while SonicWall TZ 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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