We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Check Point is awesome from a security standpoint. Based on our experience and also the experience of the other customers, it is a very stable appliance."
"The way in which it manages the nodes within a cluster architecture is excellent, offering fault tolerance which is, in my experience, practically imperceptible when one of the nodes fails."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and user interface. This is already a well-established product in the market for quite a long time, more than 20 years. They've got a huge customer base."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"The Check Point architecture and packet are very good."
"The solution can scale."
"The information stored in the logs is very descriptive and includes a lot of details."
"The most valuable feature is the Stateful Inspection, which was developed by Check Point."
"The pricing is excellent."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Support for customers really needs to improve."
"The only thing which I think should be improved is that training should be increased. In my position I also interview potential employees and I haven't found many people in the market, nowadays, who are familiar with the Check Point firewall. They are more familiar with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA and they are more comfortable with them."
"One area for improvement in Check Point NGFW is the support process."
"Check Point can scale but at times we have experienced some issues."
"There have been a few requests/issues about the Identity Awareness feature."
"While the logs are very good and easy to understand, when you want to download these customized logs, they don't have as many features compared to competitive firewalls."
"I have had some issues in the past with the desktop client being slow to come up for logging in, and then slow to respond to screen changes, however, overall, it really hasn't been too bad."
"The support team should be faster."
"The GUI could be improved to make it more usable, easier to administer, and easier to configure."
"It would be better if AWS instances were available. If I want to upgrade from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available rather than having a big instance and paying a lot of money for that. The issue is that we had deployed in AWS Cloud, and we were using a very small instance. Recently we wanted to move in-house and deploy it on the big instance because it was struggling with the RAM. If we use T2.small, we cannot upgrade it to the T2.medium. It has predefined instances in the marketplace with a lot of cost differences. If I can increase the RAM, I have to choose the T3.large instance. If I'm paying $270 for the small instance, I have to pay more than double the cost for T3.large. It is about $850, and this is not good. So, it would be better if it was cheaper. I think both AWS and Fortinet should think about that. They should provide it on lower instances as well. If I want to upgrade it from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available, but it's a problem."
"The report and policy optimization tools can be improved in the next release."
"Fortinet FortiOS is stable. However, last month we had an issue with a released patch. We had to receive another update to fix the firewall issue consuming all of the resources. The patches should be tested more before going into circulation."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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