We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"Technical support is perfect, excellent."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"This solution has increased the level of security, given us more control, provided a deep insight into network traffic, and is a great VPN solution."
"It has a good web cache. I used to use a DHCP server and DNS server. For my company, I use pfSense as a load balancing application."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"It is a good firewall with good performance."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"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."
"My only observation is about the quality of the IPSec logs, which are difficult to interpret and are poor in filters."
"pfSense has some limitations in detecting site sessions. We want to control internet usage based on sites and their content, and pfSense doesn't perform this function."
"There is more demand for UTMs than a simple firewall. pfSense should support real-time features for handling the latest viruses and threats. It should support real-time checks and real-time status of threats. Some other vendors, such as Fortinet, already offer this type of capability. Such capability will be good for bringing pfSense at the same level as other solutions."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
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Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Stormshield Network Security, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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