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."It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The interface is very good."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"Great extensibility of the platform."
"It is a very good solution for enterprises that need a VPN for their employees. It is the best way to provide a remote work facility to employees at a very low cost. Other solutions that I have had in the past were very expensive. Enterprises don't always have that kind of money to invest."
"I can manage it easily by myself."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"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 solution has plenty of features."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"Stability is never a concern."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"I would like to see multiple DNS servers running on individual interfaces."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"When I checked other packages, it seems they use different tools that are installed on the PSS for functionality. They rely on third-party tools, unlike Fortinet, for example, which has its own tools. In comparison, we also use third-party tools on pfSense. For example, we had a situation where we needed a tool to identify authorized users, and when I searched for a solution, I found a third-party tool. However, using such tools may come with additional costs."
"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."
"In terms of areas of improvement, the interface seemed like it had a lot. The GUI interface that I had gotten into was rather elaborate. I don't know if they could zero in on some markets and potentially for small, medium businesses specifically, give them a stripped-down version of the GUI for pfSense."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"The solution could be more user-friendly, and the graphical interface needs some work so that someone without an IT background can use the application. I would like the ability to manage the on-premise appliance from the cloud. When I'm not in the office, it would be great to connect to the pfSense server and administer the network remotely."
"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."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
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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