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."Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"Remote access is excellent."
"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."
"Stability is never a concern."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Its price could be better."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
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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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