User Reviews of Fortinet FortiGate & Netgate pfSense

Updated March 2024

Would you like to learn about products from people using them now? Simplify your research with trusted advice from people like you.

Download our FREE report comparing Fortinet FortiGate and Netgate pfSense based on reviews, features, and more!

Where should we email your report?






Fortinet FortiGate review

William Nogueira
William Nogueira
IT Security Specialist at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees
Helps reduce our mean time to remediate and our security risk, and provides good...
While FortiGate offers a wide range of security features, I sometimes feel that the platform could benefit from more extensive improvements. Given the multitude of functions it provides, I wonder if the developers have enough time to adequately refine each aspect. However, for our specific needs, FortiGate currently performs adequately. The...
Netgate pfSense review

Eduardo Monteiro.
Eduardo Monteiro.
IT Manager at Prologica
Good performance, reliable, and open source
There are several levels of firewall configuration such as beginner, advanced, and expert configurations. At each level, it becomes more complex and more tricky to set up the firewall. For example, if you want to install the firewall on your computer system, it would be a lot easier if it just tells you that this is the internet NIC and...

Since 2012, we've had 768,246 professionals use our research.

As seen in