We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The technical support is very good."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"The solution has high availability."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"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."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"FortiOS's bandwidth and interface could be improved."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"I would like to see the features of FortiAnalyzer included in Fortinet FortiOS. Right now, you're required to have an additional license and a different device for features such as processing the log, reporting, and analyzing traffic."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"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."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"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."
"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."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. OPNsense report.
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