We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"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 application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"A very stable product that lasts over time, easy to understand, and administer."
"Its features rival many of the high cost solutions out there."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"It is a good firewall with good performance."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"It is not centrally managed, where you log into the website and can see all your services there. We would like to be able to see is all the configurations from a central interface on all our pfSenses."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"Netgate pfSense needs to improve the configuration for a VPN."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Stormshield Network Security, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX.
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