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."Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"It's open source."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"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."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Backup can be improved."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"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."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
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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