We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The hardware is stable."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The solution has good features."
"The command feature is valuable."
"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."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The solution could improve its technical support."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The reporting part could be better."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while OPNsense is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Good interface and firewall capabilities and overall easy to use". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Juniper vSRX vs. OPNsense report.
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