We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos UTM 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."From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The technical support is very good."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"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 user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Backup can be improved."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"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."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"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."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The reporting part could be better."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, IPFire and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos UTM report.
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