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."The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"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."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"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."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st 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 Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos UTM report.
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