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"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It can expand easily."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server."
"The security configuration features have enhanced the reliable coordination of programs and data safety."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"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 product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility."
"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."
"The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Backup can be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The threat scanning system should categorize the level of threats to enhance reliable data interpretation."
"It's meeting our needs at this time. If I could make it better, it would be by making it more standalone. That would be beneficial to us. I say that because our current platform for virtualization is VMware. The issue isn't any fault of Check Point, it's more how the virtualization platform partners allow for that partnership and integration. There has to be close ties and partnerships between the vendors to ensure interoperability and sup-portability. There is only so far that Check Point, or any security vendor technology can go without the partnership and enablement of the virtualization platform vendor as it relies on "Service Insertion" to maintain optimal performance."
"The solution needs to support more hypervisors."
"CloudGuard Network Security needs to include new features. One specific feature I would like to see is the ability to protect external resources using single sign-on integration with various identity providers, including custom identity providers. Its pricing could also be cheaper."
"The user interface can be improved."
"They can improve their security features to the next advanced level so that their efficiency in catching the malware can become 100%, and there is no scope for any data loss or leakage from the system due to any issue."
"Some more built-in marketplace templates would be nice. It would be nice to see more vendor assistance in deployments and backup of recoveries versus having customers rely upon that themselves. That would make it a lot more seamless and aligned with the standard on-premise model that is there. Check Point can extend the same posture that they have to CloudGuard and make that transition very seamless."
"The product needs to offer multi-tenancy."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while McAfee StoneGate [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 StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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