We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"They have very good support. In critical scenarios, they provide us very quick solutions, are very well-trained, and have a good knowledge about the product. That is what we expect from them."
"The separate management feature of Check Point NGFW is very convenient."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"We found a very successful implementation of the virtual private network client, since, for some time now, everyone has been working from home."
"Within the organization, the inspection of packages has given us great help in detecting traffic that may be a threat to the institution."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"The Check Point API let me make 100 net rules in just 10 minutes, which saved us time."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"Technical support has been good."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"The pricing could always be better."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"The reports are very basic."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"There is a strong demand for security services that can be effortlessly integrated which would ensure that security measures can seamlessly adapt to the cloud infrastructure."
"The level and availability of training should be improved."
"For the next release, we would like to have better ruleset cleanup tools that are already included."
"The interface can be more user-friendly in terms of design and the location of critical and commonly used icons."
"They need to offer quicker resolution and maintenance during downtime."
"Lacks some integration with other solutions."
"The firewall should be easily deployable and scalable in any major cloud environment and enable an organization’s security team to manage all of its security settings from a single console."
"Check Point products have many places that need to be improved, but they are constantly upgrading."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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