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."Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Phish Blocker is a valuable feature."
"Good basic firewall features."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"We like the fact that the product is open-source. It's free to use. There are no costs associated with it."
"The most valuable feature, for instance, is the ease of migrating configurations between different Netgate devices housed in the same box."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"The documentation is not clear."
"In terms of areas of improvement, the interface seemed like it had a lot. The GUI interface that I had gotten into was rather elaborate. I don't know if they could zero in on some markets and potentially for small, medium businesses specifically, give them a stripped-down version of the GUI for pfSense."
"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."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"It would be great to add more to security."
"For the third-party packages, I'd rather have it built-in, like a core feature of pfSense, part of the core model."
"The stability could be improved."
"The access control aspect of the product could be improved."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
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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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