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Check Point Quantum Force (NGFW) vs Zyxel Unified Security Gateway comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 17, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiGate
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
411
Ranking in other categories
Firewalls (2nd), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (1st), WAN Edge (1st)
Check Point Quantum Force (...
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
325
Ranking in other categories
Firewalls (5th), Unified Threat Management (UTM) (1st)
Zyxel Unified Security Gateway
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Unified Threat Management (UTM) (14th)
 

Featured Reviews

Vasu Gala - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable solution with an intuitive interface and quick customer service
I have been working with Fortinet FortiGate, WatchGuard, Sophos, and SonicWall. I'm not as comfortable with SonicWall because of their UI and limitations. I prefer Fortinet above all other options. When it comes to configuration, I am confident in my ability to handle various tasks, including creating policies such as firewall rules, web policies, and application policies. Additionally, I can configure VPNs and implement load balancing, among other tasks. Overall, I feel much more comfortable working with Fortinet. Fortinet has made significant improvements by integrating AI with firewalls for threat analysis and prevention. In the past 2-3 years, they have launched FortiSASE and SIEM, and they also provide SOC services. Both Palo Alto and Fortinet FortiGate are excellent. While Fortinet FortiGate comes at higher prices, the functionality and support justify the cost. They promptly resolve firmware issues and inform all support providers about configuration changes.
Hailemichael Yigrem - PeerSpot reviewer
Advanced security features enhance threat detection and prevention
Check Point NGFW provides granular application control and detailed visibility over application and user activity. It integrates with the ThreatCloud ecosystem, enabling real-time threat detection and prevention. The User Identity Awareness blade integrates with Active Directory, identifying user traffic sources. Check Point NGFW is highly scalable and has centralized management through SmartConsole, which manages policies, logs, and threat data. It reduced our incidents and decreased the time to analyze cyber threats by 70 percent.
Alexander Azikov - PeerSpot reviewer
A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up
Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved. There are two user interface options available, namely the basic and the advanced. The basic UI is not very good and doesn't have a lot of features, although it is fast. The advanced UI allows me to do whatever I want, but this is where the issue of speed exists. At one of our sites, the CPU utilization was very high, and for no reason. Technical support needs to be more responsive to requests.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Fortinet FortiGate positively provides my clients' organizations with a high return on investment."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"We have between five and ten firewalls on-premises, and if we want to configure or push the same configuration to all of the firewalls, then the centralized management system is very helpful."
"The separate management feature of Check Point NGFW is very convenient."
"In addition to the different security features that Check Point security solutions have, their integration with other technologies makes the security environment a complete security type."
"One of the most valuable features is the data center object integration with Azure. We are using Azure a lot and there is very nice synchronization between the objects in Azure, and it's very easy to implement rules using this feature."
"It's really simple to set up."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to whitelist and blacklist sources to control access to our ecosystem, ensuring secured SaaS application access."
"The Blades work fine and the performance optimization is great."
"On the firewall side, the security efficacy is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
 

Cons

"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The support system could be improved."
"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."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The price and deployment part of Fortinet FortiGate is good, but it can always be better."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"We would like to see constant improvement in anti-malware functionality and anti-threat protection."
"In the past year, we faced severe downtime that lasted many days due to a misconfiguration."
"There have been a few requests/issues about the Identity Awareness feature."
"The SmartUpdate interface is a little bit crowded if your company has a lot of software items."
"The software licensing model is too complicated with all the various tiers of SKUs (i.e. per software blade). They need to simplify this for easier purchasing and renewing."
"There should be better integration with our current NAC solution to increase the granularity of policies that we implement."
"The presentation of the reports need to be more user-friendly."
"There are some issues compared to other products. Ease of use is one."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their licensing costs are annual. The UTM feature license along with their support is called FortiCare. We include that as a part of the annual maintenance cost. Palo Alto or Juniper also have an annual subscription charge for UTM. Price, of course, can always be more competitive, but it is not the most expensive product. The price-performance ratio is quite high for FortiGate."
"This is not a cheap solution but it isn't expensive, either. It's a good solution for the right price."
"It was worth the money overall. It's good value."
"Fortinet FortiGate is expensive."
"There is no challenge in Fortinet FortiGate pricing."
"For our organization, the licensing costs are approximately $7,000 per year."
"It is more affordable than Check Point and Palo Alto. Another thing is that all the features and the OS remain the same irrespective of the size of the device. Pricing-wise, Fortinet typically provides one-year support with the firewall appliance. There is also an option for three years which is how their licensing works."
"FortiGate's pricing falls within the mid-range when compared to other leading firewall solutions."
"Licensing is pretty straightforward and is based on the blades available, such as NGFW, NGTP, and NGTX."
"I think that the pricing is different for every organization."
"Each blade requires that you have a license."
"They offered more features for a lower cost than competitors, and the licensing model was easy to understand."
"Its cost is a little higher than other products."
"It may be considered relatively expensive, but the investment is justified when compared to other competitors."
"It can be expensive, but it's value for money. What you pay for is what you get."
"The price is on the higher side."
"The price of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is good compared to other similar products in the market."
"This gateway is pretty cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
20%
Computer Software Company
15%
Retailer
7%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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What do you like most about Check Point NGFW?
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What do you like most about Zyxel Unified Security Gateway?
The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zyxel Unified Security Gateway?
I cannot definitively comment on whether Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is an affordable product as I haven't done co...
What needs improvement with Zyxel Unified Security Gateway?
The integration capability is quite challenging. The system is very complicated, and many features are hidden. I'm lo...
 

Also Known As

FortiGate 60b, FortiGate 60c, FortiGate 80c, FortiGate 50b, FortiGate 200b, FortiGate 110c, FortiGate, Fortinet Firewall
Check Point NG Firewall, Check Point Next Generation Firewall
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