We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Stormshield Network Security 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 initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"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."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"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."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"I like how you can configure the rules. There is the task for the rules and a task for the network configuration. It also provides SMD filtering, and it can be integrated with the active directory for the users, their mission, and the VPN configuration. We are here in Sudan, and Stormshield didn't work in Sudan for more than a decade. Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain. I am just working with the firewall solution, and we don't have any other solutions like endpoint solutions or something like that."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"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."
"Its price could be better."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"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."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Stormshield Network Security 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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