We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Check Point VPN-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."The central management makes it easier, and is a time-saver, when implementing changes."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"We have found the solution to be scalable."
"Check Point NGFW has helped us to significantly reduce our risk of cyberattacks by providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing attacks, and zero-day threats."
"All of the features are very valuable, but the most valuable features are the sandboxing and the advanced IPS/IDS."
"The solution provides better stability and some interesting features such as the ease of throughput expansion."
"It's quite a stable solution."
"The online documentation is complete and easy to read and understand."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Technical support has been good."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"For the user or anyone else who is using Check Point, they are more into the GUI stuff. Check Point has its SmartConsole. On the console, you have to log into the MDS or CMS. Then, from there, you have to go onto that particular firewall and put in the changes. If the management console could be integrated onto the GUI itself, that would be one thing that I would recommend."
"Although there is a lot of automation and pattern that can be classified automatically, the IPS systems are sometimes a little bit complicated, and doing the fine-tuning in over 20,000 patterns is hard to do."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to manage a cloud firewall with the same console. That would be very helpful."
"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)."
"There is no clear way to report incorrect classification to support and a business is neither happy nor forgiving when they cannot receive mail from a crucial business partner."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"Sometimes debugging is a hassle."
"Without any training, it is very hard to administrate the whole Check Point NGFW."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"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."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Its customer service could be better."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The reports are very basic."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
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