We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It has excellent scalability."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Application management can be improved."
"The UI could be improved."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"The tool is very costly."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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