We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The solution is stable."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"The features I have found the most useful are the web filter, the captive portal, the SSL inspector, and the ad-blocker. They're awesome."
"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."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"All features are useful. We are using premium features such as bandwidth sharing, failover, web filters, SSL controls, antivirus, and VPN. We use these features to the fullest. These features are available in the paid firewall license, not the free one."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The user interface could be improved."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"They could reduce the price."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"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."
"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."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 6th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 22 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". 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". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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