We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."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."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The central management and logging are frankly one of the top selling points."
"The packet inspection capabilities are great."
"Even though Check Point NGFW provides a set of security features that enforce protection on the network, the most valuable aspect is also the most used feature: the plain and simple firewall component. This is the core of the product and works to a great extent without the need for all other available bells and whistles."
"The tool provides great security."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"The sales, pre-sales, professional services, and tech support are all very nice."
"The most valuable feature is the central management system through the Security Management Server. Apart from that, the graphical user interface helps us to do things easily."
"HTTP forwarding is something I haven't seen elsewhere."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"It scales linearly with load and no issues."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Interoperability with other vendors is not the strongest when it comes to setting up VPNs."
"In the future, some of the features that I would like to see would be the ability to integrate environmental solutions such as the metaverse or blockchain so that we can see them also in applications directly and on mobile devices or natively."
"I feel the only thing that I see as a possible improvement in Check Point software is the lack of ability to create "static discard routes" which makes it difficult for NAT ranges to be advertised via BGP to neighbors."
"One feature that could be improved is the internet object in the application control/URL filtering blade."
"They could improve by lowering prices."
"It could be more stable and scalable. Check Point price and support could be better."
"The policy installation module should be improved."
"There's a significant area for improvement when it comes to pricing."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 50 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Netgate pfSense. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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