OPNsense Competitors and Alternatives

What do you think of Fortinet FortiGate?

Primary Use Case Firewall/Web Filter management. We have over 30 sites, and it is imperative that one person (myself) can plan, implement, and deploy these devices to our sites and manage them when finished. • Improvements to My Organization Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter.  • Valuable Features The web filtering was the most valuable, because at a school board, we need to make sure the students are not tying up our bandwidth and also to keep the bad guys out. • Room for Improvement One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering. Each manufacturer has their own way of filtering and each one needs improvement in categories, URL, and/or application...

What do you think of Juniper SRX?

Primary Use Case We use it as a perimeter firewall, data center firewall, and as VPN concentrators for some companies. It protects the data behind our switches. Our company provides the switches, like the EX-Series.  We are an elite partners for Juniper. We use the firewall for data protection. • Improvements to My Organization It has a high security implementation. • Valuable Features It integrates well with Fortinet and Palo Alto. It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering. Also, defining routing on it is very easy along with netting. The high availability of the application is good. We use the IDS and IPsec VPN features. • Room for Improvement I would like to see endpoint control and endpoint testing security. The GUI needs to be...

What do you think of pfSense?

Valuable Features The GUI is an all in one solution that includes features such as DHCP, VPN, Squid, Firewall, etc. • Improvements to My Organization I am using this product as a firewall for site-to-site connectivity and also, the Dynamic DNS (DynDNS). • Room for Improvement As per my understanding VPN, Captive Portal user-level and MAC-level filtering need to be improved. • Use of Solution I have used this solution for the last one and a half years. • Stability Issues There were no stability issues. • Scalability Issues There were no scalability issues. • Customer Service and Technical Support I am using the community version so there is no need for any support. • Previous Solutions Earlier, I was using FortiGate. Due to budget issues we moved...