We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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 application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The command feature is valuable."
"The hardware is stable."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"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 solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"It's open source."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for 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."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The biggest downside of Juniper vSRX is its pricing, which may be too high for smaller organizations. While it's a decent solution, the cost may limit its accessibility to smaller customers."
"he stability could be improved."
"It could use more tutorials."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The security feature must be improved."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"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."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Juniper vSRX vs. OPNsense report.
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