We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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