We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The performance is good."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"It's open source."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The solution could be cheaper."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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