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."The wireless control is helpful."
"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."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The solution can scale well."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"pfSense is a nice product, and I find that there's a lot of information out there. There are some good tutorials on YouTube and other websites with helpful information."
"Creation of certificates and the facility to administer services are valuable features."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"It has a very nice web interface, and it is very simple to use. The way policies are working is also good."
"Its reliability and cost-effectiveness stand out."
"I use pfSense because it gives me the flexibility to greatly expand basic firewall features."
"It is a stable solution."
"What I found most valuable is the cost of the platform, the flexibility of the platform, and the fact that the ongoing fees are not there as they are with the competitor. Some people may think you're taking a risk with using Opensource. I think it just provides the end user, specifically for us small, medium business providers of services, the flexibility we need at the right cost to provide them a higher end, almost enterprise type service."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Remote access is excellent."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"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."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The solution is scalable."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"pfSense is not user-friendly. I hope to have something to make the interfaces more user-friendly."
"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."
"There's a bit of a learning curve during the initial implementation."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"It should integrate with LDAP, Active Directory, etc, to improve the way in which the traces and connections of each IP, or user connected through the firewall, are shown."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"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 automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
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 Cloudflare.
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