We performed a comparison between Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"Phish Blocker is a valuable feature."
"I'm the expert when it comes to Linux systems, however, with the pfSense, due to the web interface, the rest of the staff can actually make changes to it as required without me worrying about whether they've opened up ports incorrectly or not. The ease of use for non-expert staff is very good."
"There is good documentation with a fantastic community and enterprise support."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"pfSense is a nice product, and I find that there's a lot of information out there. There are some good tutorials on YouTube and other websites with helpful information."
"Firewall system for small, medium, and large data networks. It allows you to provide security to your environment: DMZ networks, LAN, WAN, etc."
"The flexibility of adding new kinds of services without spending any money can't be beaten."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The documentation is not clear."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"The Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
"One concern I have with Netgate pfSense is related to packet filtering. Specifically, issues can arise with certain functionalities like GP, and, at times, there may be bugs."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"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."
"I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner."
"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."
"Improve analysis of logs and dashboards (control panel) with improved alert functionality."
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Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is ranked 37th in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is rated 7.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall writes "The solution is stable and affordable, but the documentation is not clear, and it takes a lot of research to implement it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Arista Edge Threat Management NG Firewall is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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