We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Technical support has been good."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Easy to install with good threat detection and helpful VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW.
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