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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The GUI is good."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"The most valuable features of pfSense are the reports, monitoring, filtration, and blocking incoming and outgoing traffic."
"There is good documentation with a fantastic community and enterprise support."
"The concurrent users are perfect for us."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"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."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"The technical support is good."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The support system could be improved."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"Netgate pfSense needs to improve the configuration for a VPN."
"The solution could use better reporting. They need to offer more of it in general. Right now, the graphics aren't the best. If you need to provide a report to a manager, for example, it doesn't look great. They need to make it easier to understand and give users the ability to customize them."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"There is more demand for UTMs than a simple firewall. pfSense should support real-time features for handling the latest viruses and threats. It should support real-time checks and real-time status of threats. Some other vendors, such as Fortinet, already offer this type of capability. Such capability will be good for bringing pfSense at the same level as other solutions."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"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."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
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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