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."In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"It performs very well."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks WildFire are the good URL and file analysis that uses artificial intelligence. It has different interfaces, such as rest, SMTP protocol, and HTTPS. The Security incidents and event management are very good. Additionally, there are many file types that are supported and there is no limit to the number of files it can handle simultaneously. It integrates well with SIEM solutions."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
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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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