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 interface is very good."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
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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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