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."Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"Remote access is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The scalability could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"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 deployment model could be better."
"The price could be better."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
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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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