We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Netgate pfSense 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."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"It is a good firewall with good performance."
"Great extensibility of the platform."
"The solution is very easy to use and has a very nice GUI."
"I like the connectivity to the open VPN. It's very smooth."
"Routing, load balancing, Traffic Limiter and queues. Since this company relies on an Internet connection, having these features is a must."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"The hotspot and the portal feature in this solution are not stable for WiFi access. We use it at least once or twice every day and it crashes. Some modules can be better by improving detection and having new updates. Additionally, we have some issues with clustering and load balancing that could improve."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"The VPN feature of the solution could improve by adding better functionality and providing easier configure ability."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"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."
"There's a bit of a learning curve during the initial implementation."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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