We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"It's open source."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The solution has high availability."
"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."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"They've become quite expensive."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The solution could be more secure."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"The reporting part could be better."
"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."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". 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". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire.
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