We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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."Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The performance is good."
"The site-to-site VPN connections, content filtering, and in our current remote working situation, SSL VPN remote desktop connectivity are the most valuable features."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"The performance has been very good. Overall, the solution is quite stable."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"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."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"The Untangle firewall is a software firewall, so it runs on generic hardware. We found that was probably the best feature, and it's why we chose it when we started using it three years ago."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The support system could be improved."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The pricing could always be better."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"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 product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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