We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Fortinet FortiOS 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."The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The Capsule solution and application filters are the most valuable. It is pretty straightforward to implement, and it also has good stability and scalability. Their technical support is also really good."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"The installation process doesn't take very long."
"I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"The product has allowed us to develop applications from the cloud - even with large environments and well-segmented security lines."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"Their classification inside of that database of the various threats is typically very, very good."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"We utilize logging systems, and geolocation is crucial for us as some applications must only be accessible from our country. However, there have been occasional issues with this feature."
"The challenge mainly revolves around the slower functionality of virtual IP switching in Azure Virtual Network compared to on-premise solutions. On-premise, switching between clusters is faster, taking only a few seconds, while in Azure, it can extend up to five minutes. The downtime is a concern for us."
"The licensing structure is unclear, so a transparent and flexible licensing structure would be preferable."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"In the past year, I noticed that the challenging part, especially in the cloud, is upgrading to the next release of the firewall. Unlike on-premise upgrades, it's not as simple in the cloud. You need to recreate the machine, which makes the process more complex."
"The user interface can be improved."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"They're using a lot of application-specific IC, so that may be causing some performance issues. And whenever a Fortinet adds new features, it can affect performance."
"In the future I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards and a drop in the price."
"Fortinet FortiOS need to manage its memory and CPU utilization better. It peaks at times, which sometimes can be challenging."
"The report and policy optimization tools can be improved in the next release."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"The complexity of the VPNs should be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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