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The self-hosted Sophos Firewall alternative

Next-generation network firewall service providing deep packet inspection, application and web control, VPN, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat protection. Managed and monitored centrally via Sophos Central for unified policy, logging, and reporting.

Alternatives to Sophos Firewall

OPNsense is an open source FreeBSD-based firewall and routing platform with a web GUI, API, VPN, traffic shaping, and security features for networks and homelabs.

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What replacing Sophos Firewall actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: BSD-2-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Core Network Services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).

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