We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos XGS 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 increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"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."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"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."
"Easy to set up firewall product, that's also easy to manage and scale."
"The threat intelligence capabilities of the tool are good."
"Sophos XGS has contributed to the reduction of the overall security costs of our company's customers."
"All the features are valuable, in my opinion, but for us the most important features are the network security, application control, and web server protection. Sophos Sandstorm is another good feature off the top of my head."
"We are happy and satisfied with all the features."
"It's easy to deploy and connect."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"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."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
"I rate Sophos' support five out of 10. It's sometimes difficult to contact them, and finding a solution is not easy."
"What could be improved in Sophos XGS is its connectivity with Azure AD. It's best if it could work directly without using any servers locally, or in the data center, and this functionality should be made available in this product."
"I would like to see them in third-party evaluation reports like Gartner, Magic Quadrant, or Forrester to make it easier for us to show our customers that Sophos is a leader in the market."
"Its pricing could be better."
"Sophos configurations are a bit complex."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos XGS report.
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