We performed a comparison between OPNsense and SonicWall NSSP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"The most valuable features of OPNsense are the GUI and frequent updates."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"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."
"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 interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"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."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa.
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