We performed a comparison between OPNsense and SonicWall NSa 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The technical support is great."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The technical support is very good."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The product is simple to manage."
"It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Check Point NGFW. See our OPNsense vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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