We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiGate, and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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 ability to split single hardware into multiple virtuals along with support for dynamic routing using BGP is very useful for our environment."
"The Check Point appliances are considered NGFW devices and can process both the ASA and FTD requirements on a single instance, removing the requirement for an expansion SSD module and/or additional hardware."
"We use Check Point to complete the network compliance rules."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"The application authentication feature of Check Point is the most valuable as it helps us keep users secure."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point NGFW is it is a complete solution for protecting not only the network but the applications. Additionally, it provides a hybrid cloud solution."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The NAT services part needs improvement. It's not sophisticated. It needs functions like range assignment for NATing. The way you assign a list of IPs for NATing is too simple. It just allows you to use pools."
"When we hit a bug, the support team recommends some hotfix, and if we upgrade to that, we have to uninstall it before we apply some newer jumbo hotfix."
"While the solution is good, we wish to have something that is a bit better, as the threats have evolved over time."
"Internet load balancing provides either active/passive or active/active load balancing, however, I would like to see more options that provide SD-WAN capabilities while also allowing for more than two links."
"It can be expensive, especially for small businesses."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"Check Point should improve services related to the cloud-based solution."
"We need east/west Check Point firewalls in order to do micro-segmentation."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"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."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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