We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall 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."The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"I'm a big fan of SecureX, Cisco's platform for tying together all the different security tools. It has a lot of flexibility and even a lot of third-party or non-Cisco integration. I feel like that's a really valuable tool."
"Netting is one of the best features. We can modify it in different ways. Site-to-site VPN is also an awesome feature of Cisco ASA. The biggest advantage of Cisco products is technical support. They provide the best technical support."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable to us because it accomplishes the task well. We're able to do everything we need to do."
"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"It's a flexible solution and is well-known in the community."
"It's pretty reliable and allows for isolation capabilities within the network."
"Its security and filtering are most valuable. Every layer of data that comes into the organization goes through it. After setting up the criteria, it automatically filters the traffic. We don't have to check it often."
"I have not contacted technical support. There is a lot of information on the internet for troubleshooting. All you need to do is use a search engine and you will find the information you are looking for easily."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"The interface is very good."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"NG Firewalls allow us to permit or deny applications we don't want to run. We also use content filtering, SSL inspection, and all the other things we run on the firewall to keep our clients protected and ensure they're not going where they shouldn't. It's a great firewall that works as intended."
"The product is easy to implement."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The support system could be improved."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"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."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"The ASA needs to incorporate the different modules you have to integrate to achieve UTM functions, especially for small businesses."
"They should improve their interface."
"The cloud does not precisely mimic what is on-premises."
"One of my colleagues is using the firewall as an IPS, but he is worried about Firepower's performance... With the 10 Gb devices, when it gets to 5 Gbps, the CPU usage goes up a lot and he cannot manage the IPS."
"It is slowly not supported and other vendors are a few years ahead of Cisco in development."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"Multiple WAN connections: Even though you can implement more than one interface to outside connections, it is lacking on load balances, etc."
"I believe that the current feature set of the device is very good and the only thing that Cisco should work on is improving the user experience with the device."
"We have a minor issue when assigning IP addresses in the ARP tables. You should be able to go into the ARP tables, look at the IP address and say, "Nope, they need to be on this side on this IP address." The ability to set a DHP reservation from the ARP tables would be great. It's no big deal, but it would be nice to have."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"The common center facility that Untangle provides should be available on-premises. There are great corporations here in Mexico that like the Untangle solution, but they don't like the fact that the monitoring and access to the appliance are in the cloud. They request for the common center facility to be available and installed on-premises."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"It does have multi-factor authentication in some areas, but I would love to see a more widely implemented version of that on the devices themselves."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Untangle NG Firewall writes "Its simplicity, variety of features, and low pricing have enabled us to improve the security for our small business clients at a price that they are happy to pay for". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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