We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Stormshield Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The solution is stable."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The information stored in the logs is very descriptive and includes a lot of details."
"If you want to share traffic loads to both cluster members you can use the active-active feature, if you don't want to share traffic loads you can prefer active standby."
"The AntiSpam/Mail blade was also one of the main reasons we went with this product since we hosted our email server locally. This was an extra layer of protection on top of the existing solution."
"The console or the single interface on the blades is most valuable."
"It provides access to the Internet for corporate resources in a secure manner."
"Check Point NGFW provides a bunch of different products or Blades, as they call it in Check Point. The firewall engine is what we use the most but we also use the IPS IDS and Anti-Bot features. The solution provides many features."
"We can also run policies with two or more people simultaneously without problems or the risk of developing the wrong policy."
"The application authentication feature of Check Point is the most valuable as it helps us keep users secure."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"I can see what traffic is going on. I can easily block any programs from attacks."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Check Point NGFW Firewall requires frequent updates to build more user-friendly dashboards."
"One area which is still lacking is the site-to-site VPN solution."
"The firewall throughput or performance reduces drastically after enabling each module/blade."
"The policy installation length is still too long. It was promised that the time would be severely reduced in newer versions, but it is still too long."
"Needs to upgrade the IPSec VPN port"
"Check Point can improve a little better in their technical services, especially in the Indian market."
"The number of physical network ports on the device should be increased to allow for greater capacity."
"The firewall can improved to make it more user-friendly."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"This solution has a big problem with web filtering and it needs to be improved."
"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 279 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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