We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"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."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the ease of use. It was not difficult to learn."
"Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized dashboard, which is used for managing all of the Check Point Security Gateways."
"The capability to auto-scale in or out, depending on the resource demand is great."
"The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"The scalability could be better."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"They can improve their security features to the next advanced level so that their efficiency in catching the malware can become 100%, and there is no scope for any data loss or leakage from the system due to any issue."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"There is room for improvement regarding the technical support provided."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"The biggest room for improvement is that, for a long time now, they've moved everything over to R80 but they still maintain some of the stuff in the old dashboard. They need to "buy in" and move everything to the modern dashboard so that you don't have to go to one place and to another place, at times, to configure the environment. It's time they just finish what they started and put everything in the new, modern dashboard."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"High availability features are lacking."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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