We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The GUI is good."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"There is a lot of legacy traffic from other vendors that has been migrated to Check Point which has resulted in a lot of stability in our environment."
"Sandboxing is the most valuable feature."
"The features that are important include: IPS, sandbox, SandBlast, Anti-Bot, and URL filtering."
"We can define security policies based on a variety of criteria, including user identity, application, and content type."
"The pricing is okay."
"I like the GUI."
"The Smart Dashboard allows for rule creation and administration and management and is user-friendly."
"One of the solution's best features include a packet-filtering firewall that examines packets in isolation."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Although very efficient, the product could be developed in a way that does not take a lot more system resources."
"I primarily work on the network side, so my expertise lies in configuring and working with firewalls. I have experience in firewall policies and know how to configure them within CheckPoint, including blocking URLs and specific website categories. However, I acknowledge that there's room for improvement, particularly in areas related to application-level control within the firewall. While I can't pinpoint a specific area for improvement, I am trying open to enhancing my skills and knowledge in various aspects of firewall management."
"It would be nice to add more features to the WatchTower app to be able to perform certain administrative functions without the need for local access."
"You need to merge all the old consoles into one new one and make the interface more convenient for the novice administrator."
"There needs to be advanced troubleshooting."
"Debugging could be improved when compared to the competition."
"Check Point products have many places that need to be improved, but they are constantly upgrading."
"I would like less CPU-intensive features to be introduced to replace the existing heavy-duty processes."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. 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 Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with .
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