We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"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."
"We get support in the free version."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"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."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
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McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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