We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and McAfee MOVE AntiVirus 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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us."
"The query feature is going to be a game-changer for us as we move forward."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The installation process doesn't take very long."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The most valuable feature is the security, which is very effective compared to other products."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"The solution works in the background."
"The tool offers protection from viruses for devices and endpoints."
"he initial setup is simple."
"I have found the most valuable feature of McAfee MOVE AntiVirus to be the ease of use."
"The installation process seems to be very straightforward."
"There are tons of valuable features, including threat protection and antivirus."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"It needs to cover additional kinds of infrastructure, like containers and serverless options. It's somewhat limited in that area."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"Clustering in Azure is a bit different, not using the Check Point cluster but relying on load balancing. It's not as instant as I'm used to; in Azure, it might take around half a minute to a minute, and during this time, services could be down. The delay is attributed to Azure using its load balancing mechanisms instead of the Check Point cluster."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"If you compare the GUI with the Palo Alto and Forcepoint in the Cisco, they're very easy. Check Point, due to its design, is a little bit complex. They should make the GUI easy to use so that anyone can understand it easily, like Fortinet's GUI. Many companies end up using Fortinet because the GUI is very easy, and there's no need for training. They just deploy the box and do the configuration."
"In case the device is inaccessible due to some issue such as CPU or memory, there is no separate port or hardware partition provided for troubleshooting purposes."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"One problem is that when you switch on the system, Windows 10 takes almost two to three minutes to get initiated and then McAfee adds on to it because it starts scanning automatically."
"We started using MOVE Antivirus because our security staff required it. And I personally haven't seen the difference because I haven't had any issues so far that McAfee addresses."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboards better."
"It would be ideal if the initial setup was a bit easier."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"The installation process could be improved. It's a bit difficult, but once you get it right, it's fine."
"McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could improve by making it more secure."
"They could improve the monitoring and classification of the data features."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is ranked 13th in Anti-Malware Tools with 79 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is rated 8.0. 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 MOVE AntiVirus writes "Centralized system, less stress on the network and runs smoothly". 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 MOVE AntiVirus is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Quick Heal Total Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon and VMware NSX. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus report.
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