We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"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."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"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."
"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."
"The ability to create a VPN allows me to monitor branch offices from a central location."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"It is much simpler than other solutions such as Fortinet."
"Good basic firewall features."
"A free firewall that is a good network security appliance."
"We like the fact that the product is open-source. It's free to use. There are no costs associated with it."
"It is a very good solution for enterprises that need a VPN for their employees. It is the best way to provide a remote work facility to employees at a very low cost. Other solutions that I have had in the past were very expensive. Enterprises don't always have that kind of money to invest."
"I like pfSense's security features."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"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."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"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."
"For the third-party packages, I'd rather have it built-in, like a core feature of pfSense, part of the core model."
"This product needs improvements with respect to reporting and auditing."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"I have been using WireGuard VPN because it is a lot faster and more secure than an open VPN. However, in the latest version of pfSense, they have removed this feature, which is one of the main features that I need. They should include this feature."
"Netgate pfSense needs to improve the configuration for a VPN."
"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."
"I expect a better interface with more log analysis because I create my own interface."
"The integration could be improved."
Earn 20 points
McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [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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