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."Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"It's open source."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The solution has high availability."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"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."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"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."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
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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