Check Point NGFW Reviews

We are Check Point partners and I'm a co-founder and CTO of our company. 

The firewall and IPS are the most valuable features of the solution. 

I think third-party integration could be improved. We have also faced some performance-related challenges and there is some work to do in that area too. 

I've been using this solution for two years. 

We're satisfied with the stability. 

The solution is easy to scale. 

The technical support response time needs to improve. 

This solution was moderately difficult to implement. We had some help from the distributor. We receive automatic updates but no maintenance is required. We have two people administering the solution. 

The solution offers good value. 

I recommend this product. It offers good value, and it's a high-quality product. I rate the product eight out of 10.

We use this solution for web filtering and threat analysis.

The reporting needs to be improved. I still don't have access to the reporting service.

I have been using Check Point NGFW for three years.

I am not sure which version is being used at this time. If we are not using the latest version, we are using the version before that.

We have recently had some issues with the stability of this solution. It is not stable.

We had an issue when we made some improvements to our power supply and the Check Point stopped working and needed to be recovered. There were many errors in the file system and it could not start. It blocked the work for the entire factory. We lost three days where we could not work.

That was the final straw for us and why we are moving to FortiGate.

Our company is outsourcing the support.

We are also using Fortinet FortiGate 600 and 200. We have also just ordered Palo Alto.

We pay the licensing fees on a yearly basis.

We are one of the largest manufacturers of steel in Europe.

I would not recommend this solution to others. I am very disappointed.

I would rate Check Point NGFW a five out of ten.

We primarily use it for security.

The most valuable features for us are the solution's identity awareness and intrusion prevention.

The solution is very stable.

We have found the solution to be scalable. 

Technical support is very good.

The complexity could be fixed. It's a bit complex to set up, for example. They could make it a streamlined and easier process. 

In a future release, it would be nice if they added web administration capabilities. 

I've been using the solution for about 20 years. It's been two decades at this point. I've used it for quite a while. 

The stability of the solution has been excellent so far. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The scalability of the product is very good. If a company needs to expand it, it can. It's not hard. 

We have found the technical support to be very helpful and responsive. We are satisfied with the level of support we get from them.

The initial setup is not easy. It's a bit complex. 

We're a partner.

I'd recommend this solution to other users and companies. We've been happy with its capabilities. 

I'd give the solution a rating of nine out of ten.

I use Check Point NGFW in my role as an Information Technology Security Engineer. We have implemented it for our customers and use it ourselves.

Fortinet is easier to set up due to its understandable interface and ability to connect to the CLI directly from the web interface without needing an external SSH client.

Check Point NGFW should improve its user interface to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. Additionally, the issue with link selection on VPNs needs to be addressed.

I have been familiar with Check Point NGFW for around two years.

Overall, I am satisfied with the stability of Check Point NGFW.

I am satisfied with the scalability of Check Point NGFW.

We have an engineer who is certified to work with Check Point, and I am satisfied with their technical support.

We have an engineer who is certified to work with Check Point.

I am not dealing with the pricing of Check Point products since I am a technician, not a seller or buyer.

I proposed Check Point, Fortinet, and Juniper to our customers. Fortinet is popular for its ease of use and cost-effectiveness.

I would recommend Check Point NGFW even if the customer doesn't have a Check Point infrastructure.

I'd rate the solution nine out of the ten.

We are resellers, and our customers need a robust and well-performing NGFW. The Check Point NGFW tool was acquired since they needed collaborators to have secure access to the company's resources and applications. This tool provides us with the alerts and corrections that must be made when finding a security breach in their environment. 

Check Point NGFW also provides a great capacity of features and helps us apply them to the organization. It has web filtering limited to third parties and SSL encryption. The application's administration is very simple and centralized since it helps them a lot in reporting and generating alerts.

The organization needed a tool that would provide various security functionalities in the organization, and so far, Check Point NGFW has helped them a lot. 

It has helped the company by applying access control policies and limiting access to third parties and only those who must enter the organization to use resources and applications. 

The application behaved very well with the current resources in the company network; it helped us to prevent several security holes found with web filtering and internal DDoS attacks. 

Check Point NGFW can quickly identify where the attacks are coming from, provide detailed and complete information on the attacks, and provide zero-day attacks in real-time.

One of the valuable characteristics of Check Point NGFW is that it presents very centralized management. Due to this, their security throughout and outside of the organization has improved. 

Many collaborators work from their homes or different places and help them filter and limit access to packet inspection with flexibility and speed that was not previously possible. 

The records that it shows and generates (depending on its configuration) make everything very visible to be able to adjust and correct in time. When superiors ask for administrative information, it provides great value. 

Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly.

The tool provides what is expected in its security functionality. However, some points must be improved, such as the latency in the GUI entry. It takes a while to register and allow access to the administrative panel.

Customer service should be improved, both in the administrative and technical fields. Support cases have been generated several times, and it takes time to resolve the case. Finding support is a little bit hard. This needs to be improved.

I've used the solution for one and a half years.

We use the tool as a data center firewall. Some of our customers use it as a perimeter firewall. We are only using the security gateway.

The product is flexible. I like the product’s performance and throughput.

The cost of add-on features is too high.

I have been using the solution for five to six years.

The tool is stable. We haven’t faced any issues after configuring and putting it in production.

We have roughly 7000 appliances. The tool is scalable. I like the scalability of the solution. We have 10 to 20 customers.

The technical support is good.

Positive

The initial setup is easy.

The pricing is moderate. The license cost is good. However, some features like VPN are costly.

We use the solution for our clients. My recommendation depends upon the requirements. I do not recommend the product for an SMB. I recommend it for enterprises. It has good performance and throughput. Overall, I rate the solution a seven or eight out of ten.

We primarily use Azure DevOps for source control with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and project management using Azure Boards, and it's pretty much the core of our development workflow.

The flexibility of the pipelines in Azure DevOps is impressive; we can customize them to fit our specific needs and integrate with a lot of different tools, while Azure Boards is helpful for keeping track of everything, though it does take some getting used to.

The integrations with other tools in Azure DevOps are generally seamless; we use it with Slack, Jenkins, and a few other tools without any major issues, and the API is well-documented too, which makes custom integrations relatively straightforward.

My experience with Azure DevOps shows it's a very powerful platform; it's helped us streamline our development processes significantly, and I would definitely recommend it.

When using Azure Boards, it's feature-rich, which can be overwhelming at first; there's a learning curve to understanding all the different functionalities and customizing the workflows to fit our processes.

The pricing of Azure DevOps can be complex; it's not always easy to figure out exactly how much you're going to end up spending, and occasionally the UI can be slow, but that's not a frequent problem.

My main use case for Check Point NGFW is that my organization is using it as a firewall and using it in emails also.

I can walk you through a situation where Check Point NGFW made a difference for my organization by helping in getting or stopping the emails which are unwanted and can be harmful for my organization.

The best features Check Point NGFW offers in my experience are the real-time prevention and the virtualization and reporting capabilities.

These features impact my day-to-day operations by helping in improving the security postures in day-to-day activities.

Monitoring graphs for Check Point NGFW can be made better, and that is something I wish worked better.

I have been using Check Point NGFW for around half a year.