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."Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"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."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"I am happy with the EPLS, the radius, and I am happy with the captive portal."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"The flexibility of adding new kinds of services without spending any money can't be beaten."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"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 non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
"It needs better parsing of logs. At the moment, you have to use an external server for this if you want a deeper analysis."
"If a user doesn't have a large amount of experience in Linux systems, they will have problems using this solution. Users need to be highly skilled in troubleshooting competency. Users who do not have such skills will find the product difficult to use."
"Could be simplified for new users."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"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."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
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, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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