We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I can easily configure it."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"The technical support is very good."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"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 sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". 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". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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