We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"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."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"The installation process doesn't take very long."
"The most valuable feature for us is the scale set, which allows us to scale horizontally, vertically and dynamically depending on the traffic load."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"The tool's most valuable features are the REST APIs that help to automate the deployment and maintenance process. It helps us to reduce time to 15-25 minutes compared to the manual process which used to take around two to three hours."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"In the next release, including VRF support would be highly beneficial."
"When upgrading the firewall, the old VPC containing the firewalls needs to be destroyed. After that, a new firewall is redeployed in the setup. Additionally, there's a need to separate the routing, and the routing from the old VPC has to be recreated in the new one."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The connection to the on-premises management requires using the CLI. It's not just a click, and you cannot edit in the management to prepare everything. You need to do it online and in real time. After that, you must execute a script, and then you should be happy that it appears in the management."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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