We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Mechanically, all firewalls work in a similar fashion, but what makes Palo Alto different is that it also has some of the threat hunt capabilities. It is a little bit better than other vendors."
"The configuration is very simple."
"Operationally, it is easier, and the manageability and their security features are good."
"With its single pane of glass, it makes monitoring and troubleshooting a bit more homogeneous. We are not looking at multiple platforms and monitoring management tools. It is more efficient from that perspective. It is more of a common monitoring and control system for multiple aspects of what used to be different systems. It provides efficiency and time savings."
"It's a next-generation firewall and it's pretty stable. You don't have to worry about if you restart it for some maintenance. It will just come back."
"It is pretty important to have embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, because all these different attacks and threats are constantly evolving. So, you want to have something beyond just hard pass rules. You want it to learn as it is going along. Its machine learning seems pretty good. It seems like it is catching quite a few things."
"I'm using most of its features such as antivirus, anti-spam, and WAF. I'm also using its DNS Security and DNS sinkhole features, as well as the URL filtering and application security features."
"I love the Policy Optimizer feature. I am also completely happy with its stability."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"There is room for improvement in the area of customer service."
"I would like to see better third-party orchestration so that it is easier for the team to work with different products."
"The VPN has room for improvement."
"The solution is very expensive. There are cheaper options on the market."
"It would be better to have more tools to control Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. We don't have too many tools to access Palo Alto. For example, the IT team doesn't have access to it. We can see it physically and see if it's running or not. We need to contact a special team to receive that information. I would also like to see more reporting in the next release."
"There are some advanced features that we aren't able to use, which include active IP authentication and app ID. We are facing challenges with implementing those two features."
"I would like to see it provide us with intelligent information from the data that it captures, within the same cost."
"Lacks mobility between on-prem and cloud based."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense.
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