We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The solution is scalable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"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."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"The product is easy to implement."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"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."
"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 would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The hardware can be improved."
"We seek the availability of the hardware in our region. The hardware-based firewall from Untangle is currently not available in our region. It should have threat protection on a real-time basis. This feature, available in Check Point and Sandstorm kind of scenario, is currently missing in Untangle NG Firewall."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ.
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