We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL], and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The solution is very easy to use and has a very nice GUI."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most valuable features of pfSense are the reports, monitoring, filtration, and blocking incoming and outgoing traffic."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"The solution requires a lot of administration."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"It is not centrally managed, where you log into the website and can see all your services there. We would like to be able to see is all the configurations from a central interface on all our pfSenses."
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