We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."It performs very well."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"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 graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"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."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"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."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"It is a stable solution."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"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."
"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 of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"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."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Its technical support services could be better."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG. See our OPNsense vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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