We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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."It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The interface is very good."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Juniper is more flexible with the commit check and the commit confirmed command. The design of the forwarding and contract plan in the operating system is very important for the performance when we have very big traffic."
"There are a few valuable features that offer very good quality on the solution. Especially NetScreen. We used to use NetScreen for the the product line. It was a very mature solution, very robust, easy to configure, easy to manage, etc. It made it easy to do everything."
"The solution has good features."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The technical support is very good."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The security feature must be improved."
"It is pretty complex to manage and could be easier."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"We have some weird errors and some weird behavior on the solution occasionally. The device gets buggy without anyone touching it. It would work and then suddenly stop. Sometimes you need to just move the cards out and restart it again, and it will work. The solution itself, the hardware and the software, there must be some bugs that need to be dealt with."
"The reporting can be improved."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Juniper vSRX vs. OPNsense report.
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