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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"Great extensibility of the platform."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"The intrusion detection feature is the most valuable. It is an open-source firewall, so there is a lot of material on it. I also find the open VPN capability very nice. It is pretty customizable. The clustering and the high availability are the two biggest things to be able to get out of a firewall."
"The initial setup was simple and fast."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"I have found the most valuable features to be antivirus and malware protection."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"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."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The product could offer more integrated plugins."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"They could improve their commercial stance and be more agile when it comes to the commercial pricing of enterprise deals."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"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."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"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."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"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."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"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."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
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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