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."Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The solution is very easy to use and has a very nice GUI."
"There is good documentation with a fantastic community and enterprise support."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"It works. I put pfSense in, and it works. I can't think of any trouble I ever had with it. It runs on heat-sensitive appliances. They don't need a fan, so they don't overheat. It is affordable, fast, and very high-speed. It is built on BSD Unix, and it pretty much runs on any Intel processor."
"The solution has good customization abilities and plenty of features."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"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."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"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."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"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."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"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."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"The solution could always work at being more secure. It's a good idea to continue to work on security features and capabilities in order to ensure they can keep clients safe."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"It needs better parsing of logs. At the moment, you have to use an external server for this if you want a deeper analysis."
"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."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"Improve analysis of logs and dashboards (control panel) with improved alert functionality."
"This product needs improvements with respect to reporting and auditing."
"The price could be better."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"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."
"The technical support response needs 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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