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 usage in general is pretty good."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The solution is stable."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"It's open source."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"It's easy to use."
"The scalability is good."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The reports are very basic."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"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."
"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 scalability needs improvement."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"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."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"They could reduce the price."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
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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