We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) 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."Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"The product is user-friendly and not complex."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is its SD-WAN."
"User identification and application identification are valuable features."
"The product is easy to configure."
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Its customer service could be better."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"Vulnerabilities owing to viruses in the OS need to be reduced in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall from an improvement perspective."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"FortiGate NGFW can improve technical support. The engineer who answers the technical support call, email, or phone call, whatever the medium may be. The response time is very bad."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The pricing of the solution is expensive, so it could be cheaper."
"Being a great product, some changes in the pricing would make it a great choice for even more organizations."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"The solution could be more secure."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"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."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. OPNsense report.
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