"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"Feature-wise, we mostly use IPS because it is a security requirement to protect against attacks from outside and inside. This is where IPS helps us out a bunch."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"Being able to determine our active users vs inactive users has led us to increased productivity through visibility. Also, if an issue was happening with our throughput, then we wouldn't know without research. Now, notifications are more proactively happening."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"It has a good security level. It is a next-generation firewall. It can protect from different types of attacks. We have enabled IPS and IDS."
"We get the Security Intelligence Feeds refreshed every hour from Talos, which from my understanding is that they're the largest intelligence Security Intelligence Group outside of the government."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use."
"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 initial implementation process is simple."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"Content filtering and intrusion prevention are most valuable. Our customers are fully satisfied with the performance of Sophos. It has all the features that they require in a firewall."
"The valuable features of this solution are the VPN, load balancer, and the QoS for splitting the ISP band."
"Sophos is a comrehensive solution which allows me to configure all the attendant products, such as Sophos' firewall, Endpoint and Encryption features."
"In my experience, the solution was easy to use, has lots of features, and is easy to configure."
"Sophos Control Center is a good feature. We can monitor everything from the control panel."
"What we found valuable is the way they deal with emails, as well as the way the bandwidth usage is shown."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"The price and SD-WAN capabilities are the areas that need improvement."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. It wasn't a major challenge, but due to our requirements and network, it was not very straightforward but still easy enough."
"This product is managed using the Firepower Management Center (FMC), but it would be better if it also supported the command-line interface (CLI)."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"We cannot have virtual domains, which we can create with FortiGate. This is something they should add in the future. Additionally, there is a connection limit and the FMC could improve."
"We're getting support but there's a big delay until we get a response from their technical team. They're in the USA and we're in Africa, so that's the difficulty. When they're in the office, they respond."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"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 interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"In the Firewall, the Intrusion Prevention System can be improved."
"Sophos XG's web server protection and log viewer could improve. They should also introduce sandboxing."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"Areas for improvement would be the access points and the on-premise version, which is very bad."
"While it is possible to configure between two of the solution's devices in the same model, the high available usually fails."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The installation could be faster and is longer than that of other solutions, lasting more than a month instead of five minutes."
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OPNsense is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 11 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 130 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OPNsense writes "A solution that detects and blocks malicious content with good reporting and visibility, but the reliability needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Light and stable with excellent real-time control ". OPNsense is most compared with pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM, Fortinet FortiGate and Cisco ASA Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos XG report.
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