We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"The Smart Dashboard and other user interfaces are very easy to use and can be handled without any significant IT skills."
"The most valuable feature of the firewall is the packet inspection. That is an amazing feature from Check Point."
"The user interface is very cool and easy to use."
"It excels in malware prevention, utilizing features like fan black pattern and vulnerability-driven detection, ensuring comprehensive security against evolving threats."
"I think the VSX has been the most valuable feature for us."
"The Next Generation Firewalls, the 64000 and 44000 series, provide us with support for large data centers and telco environments. They're quite reliable and provide great performance."
"The solution is easy to use. I like the monitoring the most."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"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."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Unfortunately, the API is not fully complete and also it is not an API which I would refer to as a RESTful API as there are different endpoints for the same entity."
"It should be user-friendly from an implementation point of view. Its setup is a little bit difficult."
"The documentation could be better."
"Although Check Point provides annual updates to the Gaia platform, integration with other OEMs is difficult."
"I have had some issues in the past with the desktop client being slow to come up for logging in, and then slow to respond to screen changes, however, overall, it really hasn't been too bad."
"At the moment it is not easy to configure some VPN S2S in Check Point."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"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."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The reporting part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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