We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [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."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"It can expand easily."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"I had some outages in the network and we provide services for our company. We sell mobile credits. The terminal gets access to our own server inside the network and if one internet fails, then the other one is still up and we have a back-up link on the devices."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"Its reliability and cost-effectiveness stand out."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"The flexibility of adding new kinds of services without spending any money can't be beaten."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Application management can be improved."
"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 pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"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."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"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."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"pfSense could improve by having a sandboxing feature that I have seen in SonicWall. However, maybe it is available I am not aware of it."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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