We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and OPNsense 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."It's very easy to configure."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"When I survey FortiGate products, I see that they have a good performance, especially in terms of next generation firewalls."
"Routing and reporting are two areas where the product has an added advantage compared to any other product."
"User identification and application identification are valuable features."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The product is user-friendly and not complex."
"I found the upgrades valuable."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall can be described as the most complete solution."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"It's open source."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"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."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"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."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"There have been several vulnerabilities in the firewall. It is hackable, some of the images are hackable."
"The pricing of the solution is expensive, so it could be cheaper."
"Vulnerabilities owing to viruses in the OS need to be reduced in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall from an improvement perspective."
"When considering the policy of the vendors, they do not offer much of a discount policy, making the licensing model an area that needs improvement."
"The product keeps hanging."
"The product has to be upgraded every few weeks."
"I would like to have SD-WAN as a part of the Next Generation Firewall. It would enhance high availability."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"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."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"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."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. OPNsense report.
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