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."Good load balancing feature."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It is a safe product."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"Creation of certificates and the facility to administer services are valuable features."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"I am happy with the EPLS, the radius, and I am happy with the captive portal."
"The documentation is very good."
"For everyday tasks, we just get alerts. It's anything that's suspicious, including from our Netgate. So, it's part of how we maintain cybersecurity in our school. This is working alongside our endpoint security solution."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the VPN and the capture photo."
"The analysis is very fast."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"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."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"They could improve their commercial stance and be more agile when it comes to the commercial pricing of enterprise deals."
"Also, the GUI is helpful, but it's not user-friendly. It's complicated. It should be more intuitive for the average user and have an excellent graphical view. Of course, the user will typically know about network administration, but it still should be easy to understand."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
"Could be simplified for new users."
"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 could improve by having centralized management and API support online."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"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."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
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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