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."I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"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."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
Earn 20 points
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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