We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Stormshield Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"A very robust product."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"I can see what traffic is going on. I can easily block any programs from attacks."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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