We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."It's an easy solution to set up."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"A feature introduced by Palo Alto with the version 10-OS is embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. Machine learning analyzes the network traffic and detects if there is any usual traffic coming from outside to inside. Because of Palo Alto, organizations detect around 91% of malicious attacks using machine learning. The machine learning helps customers by implementing firewalls in critical and air gap areas so there is no need to integrate with the cloud sandbox."
"Comments have some delay, but overall, it's a good product."
"I like all the functions and features."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have a very nice interface for logging and monitoring. I find it easy to navigate and use, and the interface is organized as well. I can find answers within a couple of hours and have seen time savings."
"The management options are good."
"The solution is user-friendly. It's secure and easy to understand your network visibility, control the network, and prevent attacks."
"One of the simple features I like about Palo Alto firewalls is that it's extremely easy to find out what's happening in the network. The reporting is phenomenal, and it's easy to find which threats have been detected and what traffic is going through the box. When a customer notices something is wrong, you can quickly check the amount of traffic going through the firewall around that time. If there is anything out of the ordinary, you can decide it needs to be investigated further."
"The graphical interface is easy to troubleshoot because it has a drill-down sequence. It is easy to monitor traffic."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use of the interface."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"The solution has many security features. We have an intrusion provision system and filtering and block filtering."
"Their support is excellent, and the stability is very good."
"The solution has a useful traffic monitor."
"This product offers great protection using the default settings."
"One of the most valuable features is the Geolocation. Because we aren't a multinational corporation, it allows me to look at things which might be suspicious to make sure that they are legitimate transactions rather than people sniffing around the network."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The support system could be improved."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Maybe they could add some tools and more competing services, like servers, but that would increase the cost of the solution."
"From a documentation standpoint, there is room for improvement. Even Palo Alto says that their documentation is terrible."
"The user interface can be significantly simplified."
"It would be better to have more tools to control Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. We don't have too many tools to access Palo Alto. For example, the IT team doesn't have access to it. We can see it physically and see if it's running or not. We need to contact a special team to receive that information. I would also like to see more reporting in the next release."
"The price of the solution is very high."
"I would like them to bring in some features that would encourage traffic shaping or bandwidth routing, like other UTM firewalls, because the solution should be capable of limiting the bandwidth for rules."
"There are some advanced features that we aren't able to use, which include active IP authentication and app ID. We are facing challenges with implementing those two features."
"I would like to see more integration."
"We were able to take from an older configuration, build a new one quickly, and get it up and running, which didn't take long, but there was some pain around it."
"They are working on cloud-based options. However, they do not have the options fully functional in their solution at this time."
"The area where I think this product can be improved is the user interface and the reporting. It can be quite difficult to find the correct logs and to actually find out what is going on. The digging can be time-consuming."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"There is room for improvement on the education side, regarding what does what, rather than just throwing it at a person and assuming they know everything about it. A lot of times, you have to call WatchGuard support to get the solution that will work, rather than their just having it published so that you can fix the problem on your own."
"The only downside is that it is missing an API, that you can use to easily collect information from it."
"There could also be better reporting. For example, there should be more out-of-the-box management reports."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and SonicWall TZ. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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