We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense 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."The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The product offers very good security."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"I handle the scanning for the finance department. I recently encountered an issue with the PCL bills, our company bills. I resolved the matter, cleared the bill, and received calls regarding it using pfsense.The user interface is extremely user-friendly, which is why we use it across various plant sites. Our IT representatives at the plants find it easy to use and manage because of its straightforward interface."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"The ability to create a VPN allows me to monitor branch offices from a central location."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"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."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
"The usage reports can be better."
"It needs to be more secure."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"There's a bit of a learning curve during the initial implementation."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". 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". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Arbor DDoS.
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