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Netgate pfSense pros and cons

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Netgate pfSense Pros review quotes

BO
CEO at In.sist d.o.o.
Jul 21, 2022
The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important.
GC
Chef at a media company with 11-50 employees
Dec 7, 2021
The plugins or add-ons are most valuable. Sometimes, they are free of charge, and sometimes, you have to pay for them, but you can purchase or download very valuable plugins or add-ons to perform internal testing of your network and simulate a denial-of-service attack or whichever attack you want to simulate. You can also remote and monitor your network and see where the gap is. Did you forget a printer port? Most attacks at the moment are happening through printers, and they can tell you immediately that you forgot to close the port of the printer. There are more than one million printers that are in danger, and everybody knows that hackers are using them to enter the network. So, you can download plugins to protect your network.
TO
VP of Business Development at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Nov 16, 2021
What I found most valuable is the cost of the platform, the flexibility of the platform, and the fact that the ongoing fees are not there as they are with the competitor. Some people may think you're taking a risk with using Opensource. I think it just provides the end user, specifically for us small, medium business providers of services, the flexibility we need at the right cost to provide them a higher end, almost enterprise type service.
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DA
Acting Manager IT at National Insurance Company Limited
Dec 13, 2021
The GUI is easy to understand.
Buford Laruan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Benguet State University
Mar 30, 2022
It is very easy to use. The interface is quite understandable. There is a good community, and I can take over at any time I want. If there is anything wrong with it, I could just reinstall the whole thing and start all over again, and I'll be up again in less than a few minutes
TS
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Sep 29, 2021
What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance.
AZ
Director De Tecnologias da Information at EPAL-EP
Dec 8, 2021
The initial setup is not complex.
CV
National IT Coordenator at a government with 51-200 employees
Nov 1, 2021
I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall.
JB
Owner at artesistemas.net
Mar 18, 2022
It is a very good solution for enterprises that need a VPN for their employees. It is the best way to provide a remote work facility to employees at a very low cost. Other solutions that I have had in the past were very expensive. Enterprises don't always have that kind of money to invest.
KK
Information Technology at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Dec 21, 2021
Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco.

Netgate pfSense Cons review quotes

BO
CEO at In.sist d.o.o.
Jul 21, 2022
Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually.
GC
Chef at a media company with 11-50 employees
Dec 7, 2021
There could be a way to remote to it through a mobile app. You can always browse through your browser on your mobile phone or tablet, but it would be good to have a dedicated app. I understand that iOS and Android developers are expensive, but there should be a mobile app.
TO
VP of Business Development at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Nov 16, 2021
In terms of areas of improvement, the interface seemed like it had a lot. The GUI interface that I had gotten into was rather elaborate. I don't know if they could zero in on some markets and potentially for small, medium businesses specifically, give them a stripped-down version of the GUI for pfSense.
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DA
Acting Manager IT at National Insurance Company Limited
Dec 13, 2021
Also, the GUI is helpful, but it's not user-friendly. It's complicated. It should be more intuitive for the average user and have an excellent graphical view. Of course, the user will typically know about network administration, but it still should be easy to understand.
Buford Laruan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Benguet State University
Mar 30, 2022
More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome.
TS
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Sep 29, 2021
I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner.
AZ
Director De Tecnologias da Information at EPAL-EP
Dec 8, 2021
Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time.
CV
National IT Coordenator at a government with 51-200 employees
Nov 1, 2021
The user interface can be improved to make it easier to add more features. And pfSense could be better integrated with other solutions, like antivirus.
JB
Owner at artesistemas.net
Mar 18, 2022
Other solutions provide more scope for growth. For instance, we can have only 10 to 20 employees on VPN, but other solutions can support more users. We also have more capabilities to increase the performance of the solution.
KK
Information Technology at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Dec 21, 2021
It's just not listed as FIPS compliant for where we're at now in government, which is an issue.