We performed a comparison between Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Phish Blocker is a valuable feature."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"The solution has good customization abilities and plenty of features."
"My company mainly works in the health and educational domain, schools and universities. I prevent the improper use of content from schools and universities. I defend the medical records for the patients in our hospitals. That is the main use case for me for the firewall."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"The main features of this solution are customization and ease to use."
"The support system could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The UI could be improved."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The documentation is not clear."
"Network monitoring and device inventory could use some improvements. I'm using SpiceWorks for this because it never really worked in pfSense."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"I've never tried it in large environments. All my clients are small businesses with a handful of employees, so I am not sure how it works in large environments. I keep up with recent versions, and there's nothing I'm waiting for, and nothing breaks when I get a new version."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"It should integrate with LDAP, Active Directory, etc, to improve the way in which the traces and connections of each IP, or user connected through the firewall, are shown."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult."
"They can improve the dynamic of the input of IPs from outside."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
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Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is ranked 37th in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is rated 7.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall writes "The solution is stable and affordable, but the documentation is not clear, and it takes a lot of research to implement it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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