We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos UTM 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 solution can scale well."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"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."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"The solution has high availability."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"Given that OPNsense plays a pivotal role as a firewall, safeguarding against various threats, having a reliable backup ensures uninterrupted protection even if unforeseen events impact the primary virtual machine."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, IPFire and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos UTM report.
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