We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"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."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"We use the content filter quite a lot because it's an office setting. During working hours, we like to censor the sites users can visit so it increases productivity. Therefore, the content filter has been good for us."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"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."
"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."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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