We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and WatchGuard Firebox 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."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Check Point has given us the ability to comply with regulations and with capacities in a way that we never could before."
"It's scalable and provides end-to-end resolution."
"The management interface is easy to operate and is a standardized way of managing different firewall modules in the same client application."
"mart Console simplifies the management of current policies and objects, making it effortless to track an object's usage or identify unused objects, thus ensuring a tidy configuration."
"I haven't had any data leaks or vulnerability situations."
"Its auditing features are good for checking who did what changes and when."
"The IPS is frequently updated so the rules are always new and in place."
"Check Point NGFW has helped us to significantly reduce our risk of cyberattacks by providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing attacks, and zero-day threats."
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"WatchGuard Firebox's two-factor authentication feature is particularly useful and provides an added layer of protection."
"Their support is excellent, and the stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature of WatchGuard Firebox is the VPN. It's easy to connect to the VPN."
"It is a scalable solution."
"This product offers great protection using the default settings."
"Easy to change the model if you need more performance, with good cohesion in the whole lineup of devices."
"Firebox's best feature is the access portal."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Its price could be better."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"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."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier, as we have multiple dependencies and auditors are forced to have the latest possible environments."
"The whole solution has room for improvement."
"Sometimes there are security bugs, which is frustrating."
"Complex and not very easy to use."
"It would be best if the security management server console access is simpler for ease of management."
"Log queries are slow and take time to load."
"There is a huge amount of revenue lost in the financial/banking sector due to cyber attacks, so we need to have something that can highly concentrate on future cyber attacks."
"There is no clear way to report incorrect classification to support and a business is neither happy nor forgiving when they cannot receive mail from a crucial business partner."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
"When working with WatchGuard, specifically in configuring Panda Security on the portal for the first time, it was challenging for me."
"The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
"I believe there is a need for additional measures to connect mobile devices securely to the Firebox router."
"In WatchGuard Firebox, the antivirus and malware detection systems are areas with shortcomings that require improvement since they are the most important elements of a cybersecurity tool."
"This is a great product and offers great protection but they don't hear the customers' needs. They don't make improvements as per the customers' requests."
"The area where I think this product can be improved is the user interface and the reporting. It can be quite difficult to find the correct logs and to actually find out what is going on. The digging can be time-consuming."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 105 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 27 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Robust control and security that enables a comprehensive application management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Easy to deploy and it provides useful data on threats ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall and Sophos XGS, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Meraki MX, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks WildFire. See our Check Point NGFW vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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