We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and OPNsense 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 reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"FortiGate is a rapidly growing vendor with a wide range of ready-to-use products. Their delivery time is remarkably quick, usually between two to four weeks."
"The IPS and the application control feature are the most valuable."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"Routing and reporting are two areas where the product has an added advantage compared to any other product."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is its SD-WAN."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to operate."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall can be described as the most complete solution."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"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."
"The technical support is very good."
"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 feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Application management can be improved."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The solution's stability should be improved because it is extremely unstable."
"There have been several vulnerabilities in the firewall. It is hackable, some of the images are hackable."
"There is an area for improvement in vulnerability management."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"There's a limitation wherein you can only have about 30 virtual or secondary IPs on a particular interface."
"Its load balancing feature could be easy to configure."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"The pricing of the solution is expensive, so it could be cheaper."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"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 scalability needs improvement."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. OPNsense report.
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