We performed a comparison between OPNsense and WatchGuard Firebox 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 a stable solution."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"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 system in general is quite flexible."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"WatchGuard Firebox is the most powerful firewall for Wi-Fi security."
"The most valuable features are the VPN and web blocker security."
"Efficient to setup, run, and maintain. Saving man hours and cost in the process."
"The reports are detailed."
"The most valuable feature of WatchGuard Firebox is the VPN. It's easy to connect to the VPN."
"It also provides us with layered security. It has onboard virus scanning features that allow it to scan before something gets to the host. It will also stop a person from going to a site that is known to be bad."
"I like intrusion detection the most."
"WebBlocker has the best URL category database ever."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"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."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"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 ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"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."
"Make WatchGuard Firebox capable of integrating with third-party vendors like FireMon, Splunk, Tenable, etc."
"An area for improvement is that when we use a web administration link, there is no security."
"It would be wonderful if the WatchGuard team develops nice products for threat intelligence."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"This is a great product and offers great protection but they don't hear the customers' needs. They don't make improvements as per the customers' requests."
"Once you start getting into proxy actions and setting up: "Okay, cool. Once this rule gets triggered, what actions have to happen?" I do know a few people who use WatchGuard and they still have to get assistance when they look at that. So I would file that as a con for WatchGuard. Proxy actions can be a little bit complicated."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"There is a slight learning curve."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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