We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The technical support is very good."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The support system could be improved."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"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."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"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 user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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". McAfee StoneGate [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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