We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Technical support has been good."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Its price could be better."
"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."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"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."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"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 VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 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 VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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