We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The interface is very good."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It is highly scalable because it has a mesh architecture that allows consistent policies."
"FortiGate-VM's firewall is excellent."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are its flexibility and scalability. This solution is available as a license, which allows us to activate it based on the specific needs of the customer. This gives us and the customer a great deal of versatility and customization options."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very easy to create the user of VPN, allowing them to use it quickly. Additionally, the integration and interface are good."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"The product is easy to implement."
"What I like about this product, which is the reason that we continue to use it, is that you can install the software version on your own hardware. In case there is a problem with the hardware, we can just install the firewall in another machine and restore the configuration."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The majority of our clients are very small businesses, and Untangle devices have been fantastic for these small clients. We've basically standardized our stack to just simply use Untangle. We include the hardware and the service option, which makes it very easy and affordable for us to just simply push that into the monthly per-user costing that we provide as a managed services provider. It's really a no-brainer. They're easy to use, and they're easy to set up and configure. Support is generally good about resolving any issues that we have. We haven't had any real complaints."
"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 cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"The product has issues with integration. I would like to see better integration in future releases of the product."
"The pricing is expensive."
"There should be integration with an active directory — with Microsoft."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"The solution's web-filtering configuration could be better."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"There is room for improvement in the logs. Like with Cisco, I can do almost everything and know almost anything about what's running. Untangle works very much out of the box. It's very user-friendly, but it's not engineer-friendly. So, it's good for a home user. For something fairly easy, but at the same time, with good technology to have at home, because at home, I'm not a millionaire or anything like that. So it's not like I'm worried to get hacked. I didn't want something like a Cisco firewall; it would be a bit overkill to have at home. So that's why I went for Untangle. But it lacks a few features. It's just a tick-box kind of thing. So they have apps and turn on and off the apps. The VPN's configuration is all very ticked. They have a few custom configurations, but it's not that much."
"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."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"The product should improve reporting."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"On their low-end appliance, they could have more memory and the largest storage space. The low-end appliance comes with a too-small hard drive, and it could use a little extra room. It only comes with about 4 gigs or 8 gigs of memory, and the hardware space is only 40 gigs, which is really small."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 27 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 9 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "Flexible with good cloud management and a straightforward user interface". 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". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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