We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"Monitoring using SmartConsole and all its features is extremely easy, and I find SmartEvent an excellent monitoring tool for spotting threats and user behaviour."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The most valuable feature for us is the scale set, which allows us to scale horizontally, vertically and dynamically depending on the traffic load."
"The security configuration features have enhanced the reliable coordination of programs and data safety."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"Great security and very user friendly."
"I like the malware threat control policy and USB blocker. In Symantec Manager, we use multiple available features, so we created firewall policies to prevent any malware attack from the network or device controls."
"There are no issues with scalability."
"This product is valuable for ransomware protection, general malware protection, and network exploitation protection."
"The solution offers very good security features and is comparable to Sophos."
"Can detect and prevent attacks that are exploring common software vulnerabilities."
"The antivirus and antimalware features are good."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"The overall quality of the product needs to be improved because with the last session we had several issues with new versions. Also, the solution needs better protections."
"Reporting in this solution needs improvement."
"The one thing I don't like about Symantec Endpoint Security is the amount of resources it uses."
"The agent shouldn't use up so many resources at the endpoint when scanning and protecting."
"My personal opinion is that Symantec has too many WS.Reputation.1 detections, which could cause important computers to malfunction."
"Every time an OS comes out, I have to upgrade the Symantec product. They don't know how to patch it. If they would produce a patch instead of uninstalling or installing over the current version and rebooting I'd be a lot happier with the product."
"Sometimes tech support is a bit slow to find a solution."
"It would be perfect if it is capable of detecting or checking ransomware."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 138 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. 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 Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". 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 Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Deep Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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