We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy for users to manage the entire solution from anywhere. The solution is very light, stable, and provides excellent real-time control. Users feel OPNsense is not a good product for medium to large businesses, as it has some very limited features and needs better reporting and documentation.
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"So far, I'm happy that they have recently added a firewall role, so I feel a little more comfortable with the security. The threat management is good."
"Content blocking for websites is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The product has a console that is based in the cloud for all their products. In this console, they have email security, firewall security, endpoint security, et cetera. All of the products on offer in the console are very useful for us."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are user-friendliness and it is highly secure."
"All of the features are amazing, especially Sandstorm, which prevents bad traffic or downloaded files from reaching our customers' and partners' networks."
"One feature of Sophos XG that I found incredibly beneficial for threat prevention is its endpoint protection."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"The reports are very basic."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"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 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."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"It is a very basic and entry-level firewall. It doesn't give very granular control over the traffic. It should have more granular control over the traffic. This feature should be there similar to Palo Alto and Cisco. It should have such advanced features."
"The interface can bit a bit more user-friendly."
"Everything is working as expected at this moment, but the anti-spam solution in Sophos XG needs to be improved. It needs more granular features and more stability. The anti-spam solution currently doesn't have many features, and we would like to have more features. At this moment, there is no expression filter for anti-spam. We need something to be able to filter subjects or attachments in emails based on the keyword. Sometimes, there is an issue with anti-spam, and Sophos XG suddenly stops processing incoming or outgoing emails. The only solution for this issue is to restart the appliance. Their support should be improved. It takes a long time to escalate a support case from level one to level two."
"The user interface could be better."
"It's easy to use, but it's hard to configure exact settings. They need to make it easier to access advanced features."
"The main problem with Sophos XG today is that it doesn't have a feature where you actually know the quality of an international link, which would allow us to we know if the link is operational or not. We need more information. It's losing packets on the network. It's high latency. So, we need more information to know if the link is really bad or really good, and today, we will only know if it's working and this just isn't enough."
"Their updates can be faster and more regular."
"I'd like the dashboard to be improved. It could be a bit more customizable."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM, IPFire and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX and Sophos UTM. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos XG report.
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