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 Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"There is good documentation with a fantastic community and enterprise support."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"What I found most valuable is the cost of the platform, the flexibility of the platform, and the fact that the ongoing fees are not there as they are with the competitor. Some people may think you're taking a risk with using Opensource. I think it just provides the end user, specifically for us small, medium business providers of services, the flexibility we need at the right cost to provide them a higher end, almost enterprise type service."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"I had some outages in the network and we provide services for our company. We sell mobile credits. The terminal gets access to our own server inside the network and if one internet fails, then the other one is still up and we have a back-up link on the devices."
"pfSense helped us during COVID-19 because we used OpenVPN to connect from home."
"The solution is fairly scalable when it comes to integrating with other applications and data sets."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"The integration could be improved."
"There are some bias issues and some intrusions in our network that have to be addressed. So, we're thinking of changing this firewall to something like a professional hardware-enabled firewall."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"I'd like to find something in pfSense that is more specific to URL filtering. We have customers who would like to filter their web traffic. They would like to be able to say to their employees, "You can surf the web, but you cannot get access to Facebook or other social media," or "You can surf the web, but you're not allowed to gamble or watch porn on the web." My technicians say that doing this kind of stuff with pfSense nowadays is not easy. They can implement some filters using IP addresses but not by using the names of the domains and categories. So, we are not able to exclude some categories from the allowed traffic, such as porn, gambling, etc. To do that, we have to use another product and another web filter that uses DNS. I know that there are some third-party products that could work with pfSense, but I'd like the native pfSense solution to do that."
"A malware blocker should be included. I do not know if it is included yet. However, until now, we have not experienced a large malware invasion."
"The integration should be improved."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"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 only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"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 support is good but they could be faster."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"High availability features are lacking."
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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