We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The security on offer is very good."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"Palo Alto has an approach that makes the configuration easier not only for the customers but also for the IT help for the customers."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"The product's usability is good. It is straightforward and simple. One of the benefits is that it is easy to navigate and intuitive."
"From my experience with their customer service team, I would say that they seem quite knowledgeable and fairly quick to respond."
"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."
"The set up of the VPN is pretty straightforward. Being able to build VPNs on the fly for certain users, if need be, is also valuable."
"The policy monitoring and allowing different traffic flows are the most useful features for us; regulating which traffic comes in and out."
"I like that this product has very few issues."
"It provides us with Layer 2 and Layer 3 security."
"Their centralized console simplifies management for organizations with multiple Fireboxes."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"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."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"In the past, we've had trouble with Palo Alto's application filtering not getting it right. I would not be recommending layer 7 application filtering yet."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"The VPN aspect of the WatchGuard Firebox is an area that could potentially benefit from improvement. We encountered difficulties while attempting to integrate Windows 11 laptops into the system, which resulted in unreliable connections. After some research, we discovered that this was primarily due to compatibility issues with Windows 11 and required a patch. However, it was still a challenge as it seemed that even when we tried to keep the laptops on Windows 10, they still exhibited the same issues as Windows 11 machines. Despite WatchGuard attributing the problem to Microsoft, we were eventually able to find a solution and all the machines are now functioning seamlessly."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
"The next release should have better software and configuration systems that can also be used on Linux."
"We would like to see granular notification settings and more advanced filtering in traffic monitoring."
"Setup of this solution is complex, it's not plug and play."
"The only downside is that it is missing an API, that you can use to easily collect information from it."
"The solution can improve by adding a feature to tag a MAC address of a computer system in the policy and more IP configuration settings."
Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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