We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"The solution is reliable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup."
"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 IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"The solution is easy to use"
"It's good for large organizations. It's able to handle a lot of users."
"SEP, the entire suite of components, provides good endpoint protection."
"Endpoint protection has improved our operations by protecting our servers from potential cyber threats."
"Threat protection has always worked well."
"The dashboard view and reporting are valuable. It is stable and easy to integrate, and it provides custom options."
"If there is exposure, we need to investigate the source of the attack, e.g., whether it came from the network or externally. We view the firewall logs, and if there has been exposure, then we use the Application Isolation feature. When there is an attack with on-prem, that system will go into isolation mode, removing connectivity to other internal systems. We also restrict the WLAN part to avoid that system broadcasting to other networks."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The documentation could be much better."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"The SD-WAN could be better."
"The user interface can be improved."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"Regarding CloudGuard Network Security's integration with various resources like application gateways and application-based security groups, there's room for exploring dynamic access in those areas. A significant concern is the upgrade process. Unlike an in-place upgrade, upgrading the tool in Azure requires deploying a new resource, which can be hectic and less reliable. We have to spend something new to have the tool's latest version."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"The convergence time between cluster members is still not perfect. It's far away from what we get in traditional appliances. If a company wants to move mission-critical applications for an environment to the cloud, it somehow has to accept that it could have downtime of up to 40 seconds, until cluster members switch virtual IP addresses between themselves and start accepting the traffic. That is a little bit too high in my opinion. It's not fully Check Point's fault, because it's a hybrid mechanism with AWS. The blame is 50/50."
"Symantec isn't good in terms of updating customers about updates. You'd normally have to search it out. Sometimes, the update process for the administration and management console can be a bit intimidating, and it can be quite inconvenient to get the updates. That's because when you have to do the update, you have to update the management console, and then you need to update the clients. Their application that's installed on desktops and servers needs to go hand in hand with the management console. Sometimes, it's a bit unwieldy to see that process through."
"Managements' number one item on the "Wish List" would have to do with the real-time scan of external media inserted into any client."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"Symantec's application security module needs some improvement. You need to create a lot of fingerprints for application security. For instance, let's say I have different brands of ATMs in my environment, like Wincor and NCR. I use GRG to deploy an application control to whitelist some applications. I have to get the exact image of the different models of ATMs. When I tested in the past, some machines would not connect to the server without that."
"They lack the visibility you get in a heuristical, artificial, AI type of product, like a next-gen antivirus."
"It can maybe send notifications when there is an update and everything is successful."
"It would be interesting if Symantec Endpoint protection could also manage Windows Defender. If they were to add a feature, it would be nice if you could see the Symantec client and the Windows Defender client in case you choose to deploy both."
"I would like to see improvements in the anti-virus and the device control features."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. 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 Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". 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 Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Deep Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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