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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"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."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"Remote access is excellent."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"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."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The deployment model could be better."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"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."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"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."
"High availability features are lacking."
Earn 20 points
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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