We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is scalable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is its management abilities. Additionally, the updates are very good."
"Palo Alto has an approach that makes the configuration easier not only for the customers but also for the IT help for the customers."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"I like the High Availability features of the newest ones I'm using because they allow a firewall to fail and still be up and running."
"Two of the functionalities we use most are the traffic monitoring and the full panel dashboard. Those are two things that are very useful for us... In addition, it provides us with layered security. It allows us to determine what types of access, to which networks, we want to allow or deny."
"I could still keep the data rates really high, up near the two gigahertz data speeds, without compromise on the security perimeters being acted simultaneously."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"We experienced that WatchGuard is easy to setup regarding VPN compared to other firewalls of other brands."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, especially the real-time bandwidth usage report. Also, its integration with WiFi access points is nice."
"The most valuables feature of WatchGuard Firebox are the VPNs, and web filtering where we can stop users from going to malicious sites."
"Policy VPN, site-to-site VPN, traffic monitoring, anti-spam filters, and all other advanced features are valuable."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"Some users do not accept cloud-based data processing. They prefer on-premises functionality, especially for advanced threat analysis. While the general trend is moving towards cloud, specific customer needs should be considered. Perhaps certain functionalities, particularly in advanced threat analysis, could be offered as an on-premises option for those clients."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"We bought Firebox four or five years ago, and with the first version I had to reboot it every two or three months for no apparent reason. We upgraded last year to the M370 and it's been running, but it is rebooting from time to time. I don't know why."
"In terms of the reporting and management features — and this isn't necessarily a WatchGuard issue, this seems to be more of an industry-wide issue — you get reports, but a lot of times you don't know what you're looking at. You're so overwhelmed with the data. You're getting a lot of stuff that doesn't matter, so it takes time to parse through it, to actually get what you want to know."
"The software base, the management piece that goes onto a server, is not as user-friendly as I would like. There are three different pieces that you have to manage, so it's a little bit convoluted, in my opinion."
"I would like to see more tutorials on setting up the Firebox."
"There could also be better reporting. For example, there should be more out-of-the-box management reports."
"The software in it could be a bit more friendly for an amateur user. I look at it and don't understand what half the stuff is. Looking at the interface, it is all mumbo-jumbo to me. It's not a simple interface. You have to be an IT guy to understand it. It is not for your average person to use, then walk away from it. It is much more entailed."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say their web blocker feature. It is still quite a confusing setup, especially when you want to filter out a particular category for granularity. For example, you do not want to filter Facebook but you do want to filter Facebook games only. It can be done, but the process to do it is very confusing."
"The UI and web view aren't nice."
Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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