We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-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."I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The technical support is great."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"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."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"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."
"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."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"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."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point VPN-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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