We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"It is very flexible to use."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"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."
"Flexible and integrates well with apps and other security tools."
"The application control portion of the solution is its most valuable aspect."
"It is an extremely powerful solution as it provides visibility into all the network traffic, and offers a range of actions such as blocking websites or graphics, as well as load balancing. It's a great tool."
"A feature introduced by Palo Alto with the version 10-OS is embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. Machine learning analyzes the network traffic and detects if there is any usual traffic coming from outside to inside. Because of Palo Alto, organizations detect around 91% of malicious attacks using machine learning. The machine learning helps customers by implementing firewalls in critical and air gap areas so there is no need to integrate with the cloud sandbox."
"I like all the threat alerts and WildFire. I also like scanning because everything that comes into our network via customers is scanned. We're an electric company, so every one of the bills is scanned and emailed in and out of our network."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is pre-sales and post-sales because of the support and relationship building."
"IoT security is most valuable in the current version. Content IDs, DDoS protection, zone protection, and DLP are the most prominent features in Palo Alto Networks NG Firewall. It is easier to configure than other solutions."
"The most significant benefit is threat protection. Anti-malware uses signatures, so dynamic analyzers like WildFire are the best way to protect the company. It is a firewall based on application control, user ID, and security policy. We can use it based on user and application ID without a stateless firewall or TCPIP ports."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"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."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls do not provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities."
"There is a tradeoff between security and network performance, as security is always top-notch, but performance can sometimes lag and has room for improvement."
"The advanced manual protection needs to be improved a little bit because they used to make a cloud manual analysis for the cloud."
"The cost has room for improvement."
"The solution needs some management tool enhancements. It could also use more reporting tools."
"I would like more reporting and metrics in the solution."
"Support should be improved, wait times can be long."
"When you delete and add a new rule, because of the one hundred rule limit, if the new rule has an ID that is greater than one hundred, even though you have fewer than that, it will not work."
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McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense.
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