We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The sandboxing is valuable and they are frequently updating their signature database. We get new updates every five minutes. That makes it easy to detect new and unknown attacks."
"The solution allows us to set parameters on where our users can go. We can block certain sites or ads if we want to."
"Prisma Access is the most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have a very nice interface for logging and monitoring. I find it easy to navigate and use, and the interface is organized as well. I can find answers within a couple of hours and have seen time savings."
"In my opinion, Palo Alto has consistently been one of the best firewalls for enterprise security."
"I like that they are more stable than the previous ones, and they allow a lot of other features."
"With our High availability pair, we have had no downtime for several years, since it was first put it in production."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deeply analyze the connection or connection type."
"All of the features have been valuable. There's nothing on my M270 that I'm not using. If you have remote access, you can see how many users are coming from the outside world to be connected to the systems, through the virus systems that we have behind the firewall, in order to gain access to their files and do their work. We can also see how long they stay online and whether these connections are closed forcefully or for any other reasons, such as a glitch or some kind of misbehavior, to see if internet traffic is optimized and if that particular traffic is under company policies, concerning which websites were visited."
"The throughput is great. It's perfect. We have no issues whatsoever. The management features are very powerful..."
"It has everything we need in terms of functionality."
"The most valuable feature for small and medium businesses is the support for various protocol proxies."
"The reports are detailed."
"It provides us with Layer 2 and Layer 3 security."
"The client is easy to use and stable"
"I like intrusion detection the most."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"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."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"When you delete and add a new rule, because of the one hundred rule limit, if the new rule has an ID that is greater than one hundred, even though you have fewer than that, it will not work."
"Need improvement with their logs, especially the command line interface."
"The whole performance takes a long time. It takes a long time to configure."
"Its price can be better. They should also provide some more examples of configurations online."
"The stability, scalability for enterprise-level organizations, and technical documentation have room for improvement."
"We have not taken Palo Alto's firewall management solution because it's too expensive and we don't feel it delivers significant value."
"In the future, I would like to see more OTP features."
"The machine learning in Palo Alto NG Firewalls for securing networks against threats that are able to evolve and morph rapidly is good, in general. But there have been some cases where we get false positives and Palo Alto has denied traffic when there have been new updates and signature releases. Valid traffic gets blocked. We have had some bad experiences with this. If there were an ability, before it denies traffic, to get some kind of notification that some traffic is going to be blocked, that would be good."
"I'd like to have better access to workstation monitoring, connection monitoring, and the amount of time an address is being used, to better gauge proper network utilization. If I knew that something was connected to a particular external location for an extended period that seems abnormal, I'd be able to act upon it."
"This is a great product and offers great protection but they don't hear the customers' needs. They don't make improvements as per the customers' requests."
"If they could make the traffic monitoring easier that would be great. I don't use it that frequently, but I would like to see some improvements in the ease of use of that component, so it makes more sense. I know it's a technical component so there's going to be some difficulty trying to make that easier."
"The software in it could be a bit more friendly for an amateur user. I look at it and don't understand what half the stuff is. Looking at the interface, it is all mumbo-jumbo to me. It's not a simple interface. You have to be an IT guy to understand it. It is not for your average person to use, then walk away from it. It is much more entailed."
"The performance of the solution's processor needs to be faster."
"There is a slight learning curve."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The next release should have better software and configuration systems that can also be used on Linux."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and SonicWall TZ. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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