We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It can expand easily."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"The multiple virtual firewalls on one box are extremely useful and the interconnection with virtual switches is simple and easy to understand."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"We have found the overall functionality of the product to be exactly similar to the physical product. The one good advantage is that it is cloud-based and can be deployed either as a part of a scale set or one can shut down the virtual machine and adjust the physical parameters of the virtual machine easily and bring it right back up."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"The solution is reliable and scales well."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"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."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"The only pain points we have had with it were when we did major version upgrades. Rather than being able to do incremental upgrades on those, we had to completely redeploy. I know that has changed recently, but we had some hiccups when we did the upgrades. This is the only issue we have had."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"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 complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"In the past, we've had trouble with Palo Alto's application filtering not getting it right. I would not be recommending layer 7 application filtering yet."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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