We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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.
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"I can easily configure it."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The solution has high availability."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"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."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"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."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". 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". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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