We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"It is easy to configure and it is a valuable antivirus protection. I especially like the IPS feature of this product."
"One of the benefits that we have realized from using this product is that the user interface makes it easier to operate, compared to using the CLI."
"Within the organization, the inspection of packages has given us great help in detecting traffic that may be a threat to the institution."
"There are also additional features, compared to a Layer 4 or Layer 3 firewall, such as AV signatures and devices, which are very helpful for securing the company's network."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features is performance improvement, wherewith ClusterXL and CoreXL, you can improve performance."
"Now we can add application signature in the same rule base & don't have to create a different policy for that."
"The failover from one device to the other has been seamless and we find that we do not lose ongoing SIP calls or Teams chats."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Including some sort of menu or grouping for VOIP would help the small business area that has limited support."
"The anti-spam needs improvement."
"It would be nice to add more features to the WatchTower app to be able to perform certain administrative functions without the need for local access."
"The frequency of the antivirus updates which we get for Check Point firewalls should increase. They should be of good quality compared to the competitive firewalls on the market. They should give us stable antivirus signatures. That is an area in which they can improve."
"The antivirus feature is a little bit weak and should be improved."
"In terms of new features, maybe it would help if we could start to manage all the stuff in the cloud and not in the on-prem servers. The management side could also be faster when you install policies. But other than that, I'm satisfied."
"Check Point should quickly update and expand its application database to have what Palo Alto has."
"It would be ideal to manage everything from one central place."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 279 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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