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."You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The GUI is good."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Stability is never a concern."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The solution is scalable."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"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."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"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."
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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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