We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Check Point UTM-1 [EOL], and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Apart from it having very good features, I personally like the vulnerability assistance via report management which detects host and network vulnerability."
"The activation of additional features is very easy and well documented."
"HTTP forwarding is something I haven't seen elsewhere."
"We can easily check firewall configurations against any compliance standard."
"The dashboard provides a quick overview of the security status, including key metrics, alerts, and recent events."
"The solution provides better stability and some interesting features such as the ease of throughput expansion."
"The management of the firewall and advanced routing is great."
"The scalability is very good."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The filtering was very good."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"It would be beneficial if Check Point included more licenses bundled with the base model, reducing the need for additional subscription charges for essential functionalities."
"The cost of add-on features is too high."
"The firewall throughput or performance reduces drastically after enabling each module/blade."
"We have run into an interface expansion limitation, and thus it would be helpful if products lower in the stack would offer more interface expansion options."
"This solution requires management software that is sold separately; it's actually a different appliance altogether."
"Although the GUI is simple to use and fairly comprehensive, more support via CLI would be beneficial for bulk operations."
"Check Point can scale but at times we have experienced some issues."
"The pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered - we found it to be quite expensive to purchase, and to maintain (the licenses and the support services need to be prolonged regularly)."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The interface needs improvement."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
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