We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"Technical support has been good."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"The ROI is good since I get free support."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The platform has a good user interface."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"The most valuable features are the IPS and Antivirus."
"The product can scale."
"The most valuable feature is the UTM, which gives them an advantage over other firewalls."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"We haven't attempted to scale the solution just yet. If we want to scale this solution we may have to look at other models. With certain requirements, we probably wouldn't be able to scale it so well as it is right now."
"It would be useful to have integration with different reporting tools. This is something we are sorely missing. It would be a plus to have reporting integrations. It would be good to have more integration with the identity suites, such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory, of different providers that we use. Integrations are already available, but it would be nice to have some more advanced options."
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
Earn 20 points
Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense.
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