We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The solution allows us to set parameters on where our users can go. We can block certain sites or ads if we want to."
"The most valuable feature is the security provided by the ATP."
"Everything is easy in Palo Alto Networks NG Firewall. It is very stable, easy to configure, and easy to upgrade. It is also very easy to create custom policies and applications. Everything can be done with the click of a button. It is also good for the protection of web services. Nowadays, they have a rather new DNS security feature, which is pretty good and functional. We did a one-month trial, and it is the best product for the firewall network."
"The most valuable features are web filtering and application filtering."
"We have found the DPI ability to understand web applications and build access rules on web application categories first to be a great feature."
"I like the remote access and URL filtering features that are available on global products."
"Their Prisma log collection is pretty great. Our product collects the logs, and it definitely makes the configuration of log collection easier."
"The technical support is great."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"Its detection, antivirus, and filtering features are the most valuable. The facility to connect by using the VPN connection is also a very valuable feature. It is very strong, secure, and reliable. We have implemented the Untangle solution in all hardware. It is also a user-friendly solution. It is easy to learn and easy to configure."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"The solution could be more cost-effective."
"Technical support can be faster at responding."
"Everything has been great. More machine learning would be something great to see, but I don't know if it's a priority for Palo Alto."
"Personally, I feel that their dashboards for reporting and things like that need some improvement."
"I think automation and machine learning can be improved to make bulk configurations simpler, easier, and faster"
"Over the past one or two years, Palo Alto Networks has added a lot of features into the NG Firewall products. I think this is becoming more complicated for our customers. Therefore, we could use some best practices, best practice tools, and implementation guides for some of the complicated features."
"The SD-WAN product is fairly new. They could probably improve that in terms of customizing it and making the configuration a little bit easier."
"Maybe they could add some tools and more competing services, like servers, but that would increase the cost of the solution."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"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."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 163 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". 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". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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