We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."Its stability is the most valuable."
"It performs very well."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The interface is very good."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The solution is scalable."
"All networks are security-driven, we get throughputs and security. We feel that the people at Fortinet are easy to deal with from a support standpoint. If they need to jump in and help us, they're very willing to do that. Their email filtering, their data loss prevention, their intrusion prevention, type of products in the newest OSs has been outstanding."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"Fortinet FortiOS's valuable features include intuitive policy creation and deployment, precise parameter settings to determine thresholds, and security profiles such as web filtering and remote application filtering, among others."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"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."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. OPNsense report.
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