We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The technical support is very good."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"It is a stable solution."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"Given that OPNsense plays a pivotal role as a firewall, safeguarding against various threats, having a reliable backup ensures uninterrupted protection even if unforeseen events impact the primary virtual machine."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Pricing is a challenge."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Cisco Multicloud Defense. See our OPNsense vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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