We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos Cyberoam 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's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"They've become quite expensive."
"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."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"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 following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"It isn't missing anything."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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