"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"A good intrusion prevention system and filtering."
"With Cisco, there are a lot of features such as the network map. Cisco builds the whole network map of the machines you have behind your firewall and gives you insight into the vulnerabilities and attributes that the host has. Checkpoint and Fortinet don't have that functionality directly on the firewall."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"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 initial implementation process is simple."
"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 most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"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."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"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."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"When you make any changes, irrespective of whether they are big or small, Firepower takes too much time. It is very time-consuming. Even for small changes, you have to wait for 60 seconds or maybe more, which is not good. Similarly, when you have many IPS rules and policies, it slows down, and there is an impact on its performance."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"Report generation is an area that should be improved."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"A major area of improvement would be to have more functionality in public clouds, especially in terms of simplifying it. The high availability doesn't work right now because of the limitations in the cloud."
"Most of the features don't work well, and some features are missing as well."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"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 solution could be more secure."
"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 logging could improve in OPNsense."
"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 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."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
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OPNsense is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 8 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 6th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 22 reviews. OPNsense is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Unbeatable pricing and easy to configure and use, but it can be configured only through the GUI, and the integration with Azure cloud is difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and excellent for remote access with the VPN". OPNsense is most compared with pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos XG, Fortinet FortiGate and Sophos UTM, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and pfSense. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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