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."I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"A free firewall that is a good network security appliance."
"We can run it on any hardware."
"For everyday tasks, we just get alerts. It's anything that's suspicious, including from our Netgate. So, it's part of how we maintain cybersecurity in our school. This is working alongside our endpoint security solution."
"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."
"The solution is fairly scalable when it comes to integrating with other applications and data sets."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"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."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"Stability is never a concern."
"We get support in the free version."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The stability could be improved."
"Network monitoring and device inventory could use some improvements. I'm using SpiceWorks for this because it never really worked in pfSense."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"pfSense is not user-friendly. I hope to have something to make the interfaces more user-friendly."
"The integration of pfSense with EPS and EDS could be better. Also, it should be easier to get reports on how many users are connecting simultaneously and how sections connect in real-time."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"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."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The price could be better."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
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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