We performed a comparison between OPNsense and SonicWall NSa 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."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The solution has high availability."
"It's open source."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"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."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"Given that OPNsense plays a pivotal role as a firewall, safeguarding against various threats, having a reliable backup ensures uninterrupted protection even if unforeseen events impact the primary virtual machine."
"An area for improvement in OPNsense is the hardware, which needs to be updated more frequently. DNS blocking is another good feature I want to be added to the solution. pfSense has a peer-blocking feature that I also want to see in OPNsense."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"The filter settings are confusing and overly complicated. The user interface can be improved."
"Sometimes I found the GUI and some of the features a little bit hard to navigate, as opposed to Fortigate, which is much more user-friendly."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Check Point NGFW. See our OPNsense vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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