We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and OPNsense 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."I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"The solution can autoscale."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"Great security and connectivity."
"The solution has high availability."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The technical support is very good."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"An area for improvement in OPNsense is the hardware, which needs to be updated more frequently. DNS blocking is another good feature I want to be added to the solution. pfSense has a peer-blocking feature that I also want to see in OPNsense."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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