"Firepower NGFW has improved my organization in several ways. Before, we were trying to stamp out security threats and issues, it was a one-off type of way to attack it. I spent a lot of manpower trying to track down the individual issues or flare-ups that we would see. With Cisco's Firepower Management, we're able to have that push up to basically one monitor and one UI and be able to track that and stop threats immediately. It also gives us a little more granularity on what those threats might be."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"Another benefit has been user integration. We try to integrate our policies so that we can create policies based on active users. We can create policies based on who is accessing a resource instead of just IP addresses and ports."
"The Firepower+ISE+AMP for endpoint integration is something that really stands it out with other vendor solutions. They have something called pxGrid and i think it is already endorsed by IETF. This allows all devices on the network to communicate."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"It is one of the fastest solutions, if not the fastest, in the security technology space. This gives us peace of mind knowing that as soon as a new attack comes online that we will be protected in short order. From that perspective, no one really comes close now to Firepower, which is hugely valuable to us from an upcoming new attack prevention perspective."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"This product is managed using the Firepower Management Center (FMC), but it would be better if it also supported the command-line interface (CLI)."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"The central management tool is not comfortable to use. You need to have a specific skill set. This is an important improvement for management because I would like to log into Firepower, see the dashboard, and generate a real-time report, then I question my team."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure."
"There are issues with stability and reliability."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 1 review while OPNsense is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 11 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 8.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "Identifies and protects against email borne threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "A solution that detects and blocks malicious content with good reporting and visibility, but the reliability needs improvement". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos Cyberoam UTM, SonicWall TZ and Cisco ASA Firewall, whereas OPNsense is most compared with pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Fortinet FortiGate.
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