We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, and Juniper SRX Series Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Check Point has a really cool GUI."
"Check Point is more expensive but easier to manage, and their presales and after-sale support are way better than Fortinet's."
"The successful performance of the security blades has shown the value of the investment along with the comparable success of leveraging the NGFW over a separate specialized security solution."
"Objects search and tracker logs are useful."
"The Check Point API let me make 100 net rules in just 10 minutes, which saved us time."
"Check Point has strong security features as well as some decent monitoring and management capabilities."
"It is easy to configure and it is a valuable antivirus protection. I especially like the IPS feature of this product."
"The firewall and IPS are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"The solution is stable, inexpensive, and works well for medium size companies."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"It is very fast and very easy to maintain. Another nice part of it is that you can easily extract the logs and move them over to a security operations center."
"Juniper SRX is a very powerful firewall and sometimes can be used as a router."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"The Juniper SRX series is easy to use."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"Check Point needs to work on hardware problems also."
"Without any training, it is very hard to administrate the whole Check Point NGFW."
"The management of memory in the hardware needs to improve. They have had a lot of issues with memory leakage."
"This product has room for improvement in technical support for Africa."
"The source package is a bit more expensive than its competitors."
"There are issues with stability while upgrading devices with hotfixes."
"Although they have it now, we don't have a license for it, and I think mobile device security should be a standard feature. I cannot control someone bringing their device to my network and what they do."
"The predefined reports are limited and should provide more information. Check Point should provide a greater number of defined reports and produce reports for each division of the organization."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"It needs more available central management."
"Lacks training for new features."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The workplace management console needs improvement. It should be a little bit more developed. Also, the interface needs a bit more improvement."
"It could improve areas which need high performance."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"The range of devices should be expanded to include those suitable for a small implementation. Juniper does not have any lower-priced SRX models, useful perhaps for a single ATM or a single bank branch."
"It would be good if Junos had "unique commands" between all hierarchical levels, discarding the use of the "Run" command."