We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"It is very flexible to use."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software."
"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."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"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."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Application management can be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"It would be good if the common features work consistently in physical and virtual environments. There was an integration issue in the virtual deployment where it didn't report the interface counters, and we had to upgrade to the latest version, whereas the same thing has been working in the physical deployment for ages now. It seems that it was because of Azure. We were using VMware before, and we didn't have any such issues. We do see such small issues where we expect things to work, but they don't because of some incompatibilities. There also seems to be a limitation on how to do high availability in a virtualized environment. All features should be consistently available in physical and virtual environments. It is not always easy to integrate Palo Alto in the network management system. We would like to be able to compare two network management systems. They can maybe allow monitoring an interface through the GUI to create a reference or do a baseline check about whether your network monitoring system is actually giving you the correct traffic figures. You need traffic figures to be able to recognize the trends and plan the capacity."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
Earn 20 points
Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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