We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point NGFW is praised for its extensive security features, centralized management, and virtualization capabilities. Fortinet FortiGate-VM receives appreciation for its stability, reliability, and user-friendly interface.
Check Point NGFW needs enhancements in integration, hardware upgrades, cost and pricing, stability and security, setup process, load balancing capabilities, technical support, and reporting. Fortinet FortiGate-VM requires improvements in key activation, log management, cloud management, IPsec failover, monitoring tool, setup and configuration, performance, firmware updates, log settings, GUI capabilities, costs, technical support, and integration.
Service and Support: The customer service for Check Point NGFW has garnered varying opinions, with some customers appreciating its helpfulness and responsiveness, while others believe there is room for improvement. Fortinet FortiGate-VM's support has received a mix of feedback. Certain customers commend its prompt response times and expertise, while others highlight concerns regarding delayed responses.
Ease of Deployment: Check Point NGFW's initial setup can be complex and may require expertise and experience for certain configurations and migrations. Fortinet FortiGate-VM offers a generally straightforward and easy setup process, aided by Fortinet's support and assistance.
Pricing: Check Point NGFW has a high setup cost, yet offers flexible licensing options. Fortinet FortiGate-VM has competitive pricing and includes support without extra charges.
ROI: Check Point NGFW provides cost savings, simplicity, and strong security enforcement, resulting in a favorable ROI. Fortinet FortiGate-VM offers stability and enhanced security, guaranteeing a positive ROI when purchased initially.
Comparison Results: Check Point NGFW is the preferred choice when comparing it to Fortinet FortiGate-VM. Check Point NGFW stands out for its extensive security features, such as URL filtering, intrusion prevention systems, identity and access management, and application control capabilities. Additionally, it offers centralized management and virtualization options, as well as stability, user-friendliness, and scalability.
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The different hardware models focus on a wide spectrum of the market, so any company can choose a model that makes sense for them from the range."
"It is easy to administrate and maintain."
"Check Point NGFW has helped us to significantly reduce our risk of cyberattacks by providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing attacks, and zero-day threats."
"The way in which a computer is immediately isolated if it starts behaving badly and I get a notification of an infected computer is also extremely nice and a great feature."
"We found a very successful implementation of the virtual private network client, since, for some time now, everyone has been working from home."
"Objects search and tracker logs are useful."
"The product is very scalable."
"We can easily check firewall configurations against any compliance standard."
"High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integration within the environment, with centralized reporting."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"The stability of the solution is good. We haven't faced any issues at all while using the product."
"The best part about FortiGate-VM is its strong security."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Application management can be improved."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The API support is good. However, Check Point needs to focus on more prepared scripts for some tiresome actions."
"We'd like an option that can convert other vendors' NGFW configurations to supported Check Point NGFW config for ease of migration."
"One feature that could be improved is the internet object in the application control/URL filtering blade."
"The Check Point TAC support has, in recent years, deteriorated."
"The tool is somewhat more expensive than its competitors."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"Right now, with a larger user database and a high number of rules, it takes a bit of time for policy installation."
"If you have a long ruleset, you may experience performance issues on the GUI, and installing rule changes on gateways can take a comparatively long time."
"There should be more options to use lower-end models in a high availability configuration."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"Integration could be better. Whatever devices I'm using with FortiGate are all compatible. The access points and switches are also FortiGate, so I can easily integrate them. But it would be better if we could embed other devices as well. There are compatibility issues with other brands, and we need that. We can only integrate universal brands with FortiGate. The initial setup could also be easier."
"FortiGate should be more customer friendly and budgeted better."
"They should keep us up to date about the latest version. That's the biggest thing. Currently, we have to go looking for the latest version. We should get notified about what's going on with the versions. I would like to see easier dual-factor authentication."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification 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 NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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