We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, and Null Product based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
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"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"A very stable product that lasts over time, easy to understand, and administer."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"The solution is very robust."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"I use pfSense because it gives me the flexibility to greatly expand basic firewall features."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The user interface could be improved."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"There are several levels of firewall configuration such as beginner, advanced, and expert configurations. At each level, it becomes more complex and more tricky to set up the firewall. For example, if you want to install the firewall on your computer system, it would be a lot easier if it just tells you that this is the internet NIC and this is the Wi-Fi NIC."
"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."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"The solution could be more user-friendly, and the graphical interface needs some work so that someone without an IT background can use the application. I would like the ability to manage the on-premise appliance from the cloud. When I'm not in the office, it would be great to connect to the pfSense server and administer the network remotely."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"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."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
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