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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"It performs very well."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"The comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"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."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security needs to improve the management of the actual firewalls. Improvement is also needed for the consolidated UI of different security aspects."
"CloudGuard functions just like any other firewall. It functions very well. The only thing that could maybe be improved would be to integrate some tools that are not integrated with the SmartConsole, like the SmartView Monitor that we need to open on a different application to access."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with PaaS services from the public cloud. It would be very helpful."
"The initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
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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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