We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks PA-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."I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"It can expand easily."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"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."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The solution is robust."
"I like the tool's security and web filtering features."
"The product's initial setup process was simple."
"It offers a seamless transition from one option to another, making it exceptionally versatile and user-friendly in an enterprise setting."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The cloud-based aspect helps significantly. It integrates seamlessly with other Palo products like Prisma Cloud, offers robust VPN protection, and it's all in one convenient package."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"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."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive. We would like to see additional threat hunting features."
"Compared to other vendors, the solution's community should be strong enough to solve the problems engineers face."
"Palo Alto should integrate artificial intelligence for security purposes in the background for well-known threats and new risks coming to the market."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution."
"The SD-WAN feature of Palo Alto Networks is not good compared to FortiGate."
"The support provided by the solution is not that good."
"The solution's licensing price could be improved."
"The interface is complex."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks PA-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 PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with SonicWall NSa, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox. See our OPNsense vs. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series report.
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