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."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"It can expand easily."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Routing, load balancing, Traffic Limiter and queues. Since this company relies on an Internet connection, having these features is a must."
"I have found the firewall portion for the blocking most valuable."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is easy to use and has integrity with other systems, such as proxies and quality of service."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"I had some outages in the network and we provide services for our company. We sell mobile credits. The terminal gets access to our own server inside the network and if one internet fails, then the other one is still up and we have a back-up link on the devices."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"You have better control because you define apps. You just don't define ports. You define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic. It is more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"We get support in the free version."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"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."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Backup can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"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."
"The user interface can be improved to make it easier to add more features. And pfSense could be better integrated with other solutions, like antivirus."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"It would be great to add more to security."
"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."
"Needs services on additional features, such as managing inventory and generating reports."
"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."
"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."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The price could be better."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"The initial setup was complex."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 15 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) with 21 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "Feature-rich, well documented, and there is good support available online". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Intuitive, stable, and scalable zero-day threat prevention solution with a machine learning feature". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and KerioControl, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and WatchGuard Firebox.
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