We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [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 license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It is a safe product."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The GUI is good."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"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."
"One of the advantages of pfSense is that it is very easy to work with. It is a very good open-source solution, and it works really well. pfSense provides a complete package. For some features, it could be the first solution in the world. It is a very good alternative in the market for a firewall solution. You don't need to go to Cisco or other brands with expensive firewalls. pfSense also allows us to offer some support services."
"It is effective. We have not had any problems."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"Great extensibility of the platform."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"The Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"Netgate pfSense needs to improve the configuration for a VPN."
"The solution could use better reporting. They need to offer more of it in general. Right now, the graphics aren't the best. If you need to provide a report to a manager, for example, it doesn't look great. They need to make it easier to understand and give users the ability to customize them."
"It was difficult to configure our web printer through the solution. This process could be easier. Additionally, integration with SD-WAN solution."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
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