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 most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The ability to perform packet captures on the command line and via the GUI is useful for diagnosing problems."
"We've found the stability to be very good overall."
"Firewall system for small, medium, and large data networks. It allows you to provide security to your environment: DMZ networks, LAN, WAN, etc."
"The flexibility of adding new kinds of services without spending any money can't be beaten."
"What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The technical support is good."
"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."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"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."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"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."
"The solution could always work at being more secure. It's a good idea to continue to work on security features and capabilities in order to ensure they can keep clients safe."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"The integration should be improved."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"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."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
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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