We performed a comparison between Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"The solution has a useful traffic monitor."
"It's very easy to use, especially compared to similar products. A lot more users use the WatchGuard appliance now than use the SonicWall appliance because of the ease of usability."
"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 client is easy to use and stable"
"The security that is used for defending from the attacks is very good."
"Their centralized console simplifies management for organizations with multiple Fireboxes."
"If you just plan to use WatchGuard Firebox in your office and not publicly, then it is okay to purchase it. With WatchGuard Firebox, you can manage your users and permissions while also taking care of the basic setup phase in your office."
"WatchGuard Firebox is the most powerful firewall for Wi-Fi security."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"I haven't seen any feature that will allow me direct authentication for a VPN solution."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."
"There is room for improvement in the threat protection, data packet inspection, and performance of the solution. Generally, it's just a lower-end product. It does the job but doesn't do it very well."
"What could use some significant improvement in WatchGuard Firebox would be its interface and policy management. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of WatchGuard Firebox is the ability to modify an existing policy instead of having to recreate a policy when changes are necessary. At the moment, there's no possibility to modify the policy. You have to delete the policy and recreate it."
"The documentation for the System Manager/Dimension configuration, could be a little bit clearer... The use case where you have multiple sites with multiple firewalls, and one site that has the System Manager server and the Dimension server, wasn't really well defined. It took me a little bit of digging to get that to actually work."
"It's very hard to get information from their website, for exactly what I need to do. Sometimes I end up having to open a lot of support tickets... It's a navigational issue which makes it hard to find what I'm looking for and it's just so broad."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
"Sometimes I would like to copy a rule set from one box to another box in a direct way. This is a feature that is not present at the moment in WatchGuard."
Earn 20 points
Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is rated 8.0, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] writes "User-Friendly, improves security, and gives me more control over my VoIP". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is most compared with , whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX.
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