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 solution is stable."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The VPN is my favorite feature."
"The main features of this solution are customization and ease to use."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"Its reliability and cost-effectiveness stand out."
"This solution has increased the level of security, given us more control, provided a deep insight into network traffic, and is a great VPN solution."
"Firewall system for small, medium, and large data networks. It allows you to provide security to your environment: DMZ networks, LAN, WAN, etc."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The technical support is good."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"Stability is never a concern."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"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."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"There are several levels of firewall configuration such as beginner, advanced, and expert configurations. At each level, it becomes more complex and more tricky to set up the firewall. For example, if you want to install the firewall on your computer system, it would be a lot easier if it just tells you that this is the internet NIC and this is the Wi-Fi NIC."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"It is not centrally managed, where you log into the website and can see all your services there. We would like to be able to see is all the configurations from a central interface on all our pfSenses."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult."
"The GUI. There are TONS of plugins for pfSense, as such, if a user wants to add quite a bit of functionality, the GUI will feel a little congested."
"The solution could use better reporting. They need to offer more of it in general. Right now, the graphics aren't the best. If you need to provide a report to a manager, for example, it doesn't look great. They need to make it easier to understand and give users the ability to customize them."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
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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