We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The performance has been good overall."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"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."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"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."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"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."
"There are a few weaknesses. For example, there is a lack of some features that I have in certain commercial products."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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 Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and KerioControl. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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