We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [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."The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The ease of use is most valuable. You can quickly train someone who hasn't seen a firewall in life. You can get people up to speed, and in a few months, they are able to manage this product very easily. It is a very user-friendly, scalable, and stable product. Its price is also spot-on."
"The client is easy to use and stable"
"I like intrusion detection the most."
"Simple to move settings between WatchGuard boxes."
"The most valuable are the VPN and proxy features."
"[A] valuable feature would be the branch office. We have five offices throughout the United States, and it coordinates the connections of those offices."
"It's pretty simple to understand when you want to do any diagnostics on your network. If you want to go in and see what packages are having trouble getting through, what's being held, stalled, etc., it's very easy to use in that way."
"Policy VPN, site-to-site VPN, traffic monitoring, anti-spam filters, and all other advanced features are valuable."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"There should be better integration and a way to configure multiple vendors into the same data center in order to offer more flexibility."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"There could also be better reporting. For example, there should be more out-of-the-box management reports."
"The level of support from WatchGuard is not as good."
"I would like to see more simplified management of the firewall... It's a complicated system to use."
"Cloud-based central administration of all devices from one point would be nice"
"I would like to have a little more control over access points and the ability to see the bandwidth that is passing through a specific access point. We are not able to see that. We can see what traffic is passing through the Firebox itself, but we can't identify if it is coming from a particular access point or not."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". McAfee StoneGate [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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