We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"I use pfSense because it gives me the flexibility to greatly expand basic firewall features."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"This solution has helped our organization by protecting our network from attacks."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"It would be great to add more to security."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
"It needs to be more secure."
"pfSense has some limitations in detecting site sessions. We want to control internet usage based on sites and their content, and pfSense doesn't perform this function."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] 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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