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."Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The solution can scale well."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The solution has high availability."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"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."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
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 WatchGuard Firebox, 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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