We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] 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."We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"We get support in the free version."
"You have better control because you define apps. You just don't define ports. You define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic. It is more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The user interface could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"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."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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