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 feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It can expand easily."
"My technicians find the pfSense's web interface very useful. It is very easy to use. pfSense is very reliable and stable. We like the OpenVPN clients that can be deployed using pfSense very much."
"Routing, load balancing, Traffic Limiter and queues. Since this company relies on an Internet connection, having these features is a must."
"The initial setup was straightforward, therefore I wanted to continue using the product."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"It is easy to use and has integrity with other systems, such as proxies and quality of service."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"The hotspot and the portal feature in this solution are not stable for WiFi access. We use it at least once or twice every day and it crashes. Some modules can be better by improving detection and having new updates. Additionally, we have some issues with clustering and load balancing that could improve."
"The integration could be improved."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"The solution could improve by having centralized management and API support online."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"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."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"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."
"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."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"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."
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 Cloudflare.
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