We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"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 ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"The reporting part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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