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."The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward; Azure Firewall does not have a complex implementation process. It is very simple; you just need to enable the service within Azure. It does not require any maintenance because it is managed by Microsoft, that is, it is a fully managed service."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"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 solution could be more secure."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"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 only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd 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 Azure Web Application 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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