We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Cisco Secure Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"The solution is used for the protection of the mobile data network. It is protecting 3G/4G Internet customers and the Private APN."
"This solution helped us to identify the key areas where we need to focus to block traffic that is malicious to our organization."
"It's a flexible solution and is well-known in the community."
"It integrates with various Cisco security portfolios and products, and there is an easy and seamless integration for building a complete security framework for our customers."
"The most valuable feature is that it's secure."
"It allowed us to consolidating multiple security devices into a single appliance."
"It is pretty stable. I haven't seen many issues during the past four years."
"It's a flexible solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"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."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"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."
"We cannot have virtual domains, which we can create with FortiGate. This is something they should add in the future. Additionally, there is a connection limit and the FMC could improve."
"It would be nice if you didn't have to configure using a command-line interface. It's a bit technical that way."
"Antivirus features must be integrated for end user security."
"The user interface is too complex for people who are not trained to or certified to engage with the product. The interface should be easier to use."
"When we're looking at full-stack visibility, it can be difficult to get the right information out of Firepower."
"The graphical interface should be improved to make the configuration easier, to do things with a single click."
"The management of the firewalls could be improved because there are a lot of bugs."
"Report generation is an area that should be improved."
Earn 20 points
Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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