We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This product is definitely scalable."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"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 of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It's offering great security while also being rather easy to manage."
"It offers a range of models to enhance network security and it can be customized to secure endpoint client machines or user devices by deploying features like malware detection, antivirus, and mail security blades."
"One of the solution's best features include a packet-filtering firewall that examines packets in isolation."
"We have between five and ten firewalls on-premises, and if we want to configure or push the same configuration to all of the firewalls, then the centralized management system is very helpful."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"Its usability is the best for me. As compared to Palo Alto, Juniper, or Cisco firewalls, Check Point firewall has the best user interface for management, reading logs, looking for some objects, and looking for policies."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and user interface. This is already a well-established product in the market for quite a long time, more than 20 years. They've got a huge customer base."
"Making configuring numerous layers of security policies easy to use was always one of the things I liked most about their firewall solution."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"The scalability could be better."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Backup can be improved."
"The pricing could always be more competitive."
"Right now, with a larger user database and a high number of rules, it takes a bit of time for policy installation."
"When you want to open the gateway by double-clicking on the interface, sometimes it can cause silly problems such as freezing."
"Check Point doesn't warn us when rules are about to expire. It was also inconvenient that we had to change hardware when we upgraded. It would be nice if they made the new version compatible with current hardware or if it only required a minor upgrade."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"The policy installation length is still too long. It was promised that the time would be severely reduced in newer versions, but it is still too long."
"The virtual infrastructure of the central management requires a huge amount of resources to work properly and manage all the logs without problems."
"It requires enhanced automation tools for regulatory compliance to ease the burden of compliance reporting and auditing."
"This product is unable to secure access to endpoints for our external employees."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"Do not even consider NetExtender - probably one of the most horrific, nightmare grade Java-based VPN clients. We have but all given up trying to make it work reliably."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Sangfor NGAF, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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