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."Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The user interface could be improved."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
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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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