We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense 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."Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"The built-in open VPN and the VPN Client Export are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"I can manage it easily by myself."
"The firewall sensor is highly effective, and it's easy to deploy. You can deploy pfSense with limited hardware resources. It's not necessary to have an appliance with much RAM to make it work. It's cost-effective and performs well."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"I have found the most valuable features to be antivirus and malware protection."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"This solution has helped our organization by protecting our network from attacks."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"I've never tried it in large environments. All my clients are small businesses with a handful of employees, so I am not sure how it works in large environments. I keep up with recent versions, and there's nothing I'm waiting for, and nothing breaks when I get a new version."
"The solution requires a lot of administration."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"pfSense has some limitations in detecting site sessions. We want to control internet usage based on sites and their content, and pfSense doesn't perform this function."
"There are some bias issues and some intrusions in our network that have to be addressed. So, we're thinking of changing this firewall to something like a professional hardware-enabled firewall."
"One concern I have with Netgate pfSense is related to packet filtering. Specifically, issues can arise with certain functionalities like GP, and, at times, there may be bugs."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"The deployment model could be better."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"High availability features are lacking."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". 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". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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