We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) 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."Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The solution can scale well."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall can be described as the most complete solution."
"The solution is used in my company since its management is very comfortable"
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"Overall, I am satisfied with the product."
"The solution's application control is very powerful."
"User identification and application identification are valuable features."
"I found the upgrades valuable."
"The most valuable features we found are the SD-WAN, FortiGate SD-WAN, and the standard UTM protection, among others."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"It's open source."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"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."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Backup can be improved."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"The scalability could be better."
"I see problems with the licensing. If I have to add a new feature, we need to add a license."
"The management consoles can be improved."
"I see room to explore its integration with Secure Service Automation for a more comprehensive security view."
"Its technical support could be better."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall could be made a little less expensive."
"I would like to have SD-WAN as a part of the Next Generation Firewall. It would enhance high availability."
"There are some issues with security features and aspects like logs not being up to the mark."
"The vendors offer models with different levels of productivity of the product to its users, which is not possible in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). It lacks integration options."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and KerioControl. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. OPNsense report.
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