We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense and Trellix Network Detection and Response based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"The intrusion detection feature is the most valuable. It is an open-source firewall, so there is a lot of material on it. I also find the open VPN capability very nice. It is pretty customizable. The clustering and the high availability are the two biggest things to be able to get out of a firewall."
"Routing, load balancing, Traffic Limiter and queues. Since this company relies on an Internet connection, having these features is a must."
"I can manage it easily by myself."
"The firewall sensor is highly effective, and it's easy to deploy. You can deploy pfSense with limited hardware resources. It's not necessary to have an appliance with much RAM to make it work. It's cost-effective and performs well."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"The solution can scale."
"The installation phase was easy."
"Application categorization is the most valuable feature for us. Application filtering is very interesting because other products don't give you full application filtering capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is MVX, which tests all of the files that have been received in an email."
"The most valuable feature is the network security module."
"The product has helped improve our organization by being easy to use and integrate. This saves time, trouble and money."
"It is stable and quite protective. It has a lot of features to scan a lot of malicious things and vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the view into the application."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"They've become quite expensive."
"It could use a little bit of improvement in the reporting."
"I would like to see multiple DNS servers running on individual interfaces."
"It needs better parsing of logs. At the moment, you have to use an external server for this if you want a deeper analysis."
"The security could be improved."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"It's just not listed as FIPS compliant for where we're at now in government, which is an issue."
"Cybersecurity posture has room for improvement."
"They can maybe consider supporting some compliance standards. When we are configuring rules and policies, it can guide whether they are compliant with a particular compliance authority. In addition, if I have configured some rules that have not been used, it should give a report saying that these rules have not been used in the last three months or six months so that I disable or delete those rules."
"It is not a very secure product."
"The initial setup was complex because of the nature of our environment. When it comes to the type of applications and functions which we were looking at in terms of identifying malicious threats, there would be some level of complexity, if we were doing it right."
"We'd like the potential for better scaling."
"A better depth of view, being able to see deeper into the management process, is what I'd like to see."
"Technical packaging could be improved."
"As far as future inclusions, it would be useful to display more threat intelligence, such as the actual area of the threat and the origin of the web crawling (Tor and Dark Web)."
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Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Trellix Network Detection and Response is ranked 9th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 37 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Trellix Network Detection and Response is rated 8.4. 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 Trellix Network Detection and Response writes "Offers in-depth investigation capabilities, integrates well and smoothly transitioned from a lower-capacity appliance to a higher one". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Trellix Network Detection and Response is most compared with Fortinet FortiSandbox, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Zscaler Internet Access, Vectra AI and Arbor DDoS.
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