What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGate?

In their IPS Web Security Gateway, the reporting functions need to be a little bit more user-friendly for how to get the reports from it. That's one of the reasons why we don't use that function. With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic.

What advice do you have for others considering Fortinet FortiGate?

I'd advise potential users to just implement the right size for you and what your needs are. I'd rate the product nine out of ten. We are just a customer and end-user.

What do you like most about Pure Storage FlashArray?

We find the ease of usability and setup valuable.

What needs improvement with Check Point NGFW?

Innovation is one of the most important things they must adhere to. I have liked seeing how innovation evolves and how security teams protect themselves proactively while always being efficient. Hopefully, in the future, these will be much more plug-and-play and orchestrated from a single administration console. Today, I am learning a lot about the cloud. I know that this is one of the solutions that can be placed in any cloud, so we will soon see if it will continue with the virtualization of Web3 equipment.

What is your primary use case for Check Point NGFW?

We needed a perimeter solution that would add value to our organization by safeguarding our information, equipment, users, and all the infrastructure we have within our entire organization. We needed something that, in the future, had the capacity to be scalable as well as something that was easy to configure. We wanted to ensure that it could be configured in a way that, if high availability is required, it would be fine. In that search, we decided to try the NGFW from Check Point.

What advice do you have for others considering Cisco ASA Firewall?

Being a partner, we work with customers who already have different vendor solutions as well. At times, there are a mix of small SMB sites, which could be, let's say, a grocery. There are smaller stores and there are bigger stores, and at times, they do local DIAs or local internet breakouts. [That's where] you do see some cloud-based or very small firewalls as well, but when you look at the headquarters or bigger enterprises, that is where we would probably position Cisco. [My advice] would depend [on] if they are comfortable with a particular product, if they've been working with a particular vendor. If it's a Cisco shop, or if they've been working on Cisco, or the customers are quite comfortable with Cisco, I would say this is the way to go. Unless they have a mixed environment. It will still depend on the SME's expertise, how comfortable they are, and then looking at the use cases and which products would nullify or solve them. That is where we should position it. My lessons are endless with ASA, but my lessons are mostly toward product knowledge. When you look at the deployment side of things, or for me, personally, when I was TAC, to know how things work internally within ASA—like an A to Z story, and there are 100 gaps between and you need to know those gaps—and then, eventually, you will get to the problem and solve it in minutes rather than hours.

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