We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate 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."The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"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."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The technical support is very good."
"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."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Its price could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"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 support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"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 logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The solution could be more secure."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 83 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 14 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "SSL proxy makes URL filtering easier because the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Supports high availability, good content filtering capabilities, and ability to protect against various types of malware". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, pfSense, Sophos XG, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas OPNsense is most compared with pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. OPNsense report.
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