We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The technical support is great."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"It's open source."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks VM-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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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