We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] 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."The solution is stable."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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