We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The technical support is very good."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution has high availability."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The analysis is very fast."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"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."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"The reporting part could be better."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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