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."Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"The tool's most valuable features are inspecting internet traffic and IPS. We can manage the firewall using shared policies from a single management server."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"Remote access is excellent."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The UI could be improved."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"Lacks training for new features."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"There is room for improvement in addressing bugs and support issues."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Its price is fair, but it can be more favorable."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
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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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