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."This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"The flexibility of adding new kinds of services without spending any money can't be beaten."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"We've found the stability to be very good overall."
"We like the fact that the product is open-source. It's free to use. There are no costs associated with it."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"pfSense helped us during COVID-19 because we used OpenVPN to connect from home."
"We get support in the free version."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Also, the GUI is helpful, but it's not user-friendly. It's complicated. It should be more intuitive for the average user and have an excellent graphical view. Of course, the user will typically know about network administration, but it still should be easy to understand."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to take advantage of all of the solution's options, you need to have a bit of a technical background. It's not for a layperson."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"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 have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
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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