We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy for users to manage the entire solution from anywhere. The solution is very light, stable, and provides excellent real-time control. Users feel OPNsense is not a good product for medium to large businesses, as it has some very limited features and needs better reporting and documentation.
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"The technical support is very good."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"The feature that we find most valuable is the VPN, which ensures that people working remotely have a secure connection."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"One feature of Sophos XG that I found incredibly beneficial for threat prevention is its endpoint protection."
"We can configure rules with the user, traffic, etc., making it a very versatile solution for our network."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"There are many valuable features."
"The product has all the latest features."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Backup can be improved."
"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."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The reporting part could be better."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
"XG is at its end of life. People are moving to XGS."
"The support engineers of the product are not very tech-savvy, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The VPN device could be improved upon."
"I do prefer when updates come out a bit quicker."
"Sophos XG should improve on the GDPR features involving data protection and encryption. Security regarding data protection is important."
"They need to allow their solution to integrate with other products and not just other Sophos solutions."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM, IPFire and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX and Sophos UTM. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos XG report.
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