We performed a comparison between Sophos XG and Untangle Ng Firewall based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy to manage the entire solution and can be done anywhere. Users find that the solution is very light, stable, and provides excellent real-time control. Untangle NG Firewall hardware is not available in all geographic locations, and users say it is not recommended for large enterprise organizations.
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"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."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"We find it easy to use. Its internal configuration is very easy. It is not complicated in terms of use and configuration. It has been fairly stable, and it is also scalable."
"I have found the feature allowing you to manage everything from a centralized location beneficial."
"We've had good experiences with technical support."
"It's a product that is in continuous improvement and is following what the customer is asking for. They are taking inputs and designing new releases specifically according to the client and their needs."
"The VPN is easy and has good logging, monitoring and notifications."
"The product has all the latest features."
"In terms of the functionality, I think it's pretty straightforward. It's easy to pick up. It's also user-friendly."
"I like the firewall, inbound, and outbound modules the most. The VPN feature also works well. It is very easy to configure rules in Sophos XG. We have got local service here in Zimbabwe from Sophos, which is something that I like a lot. We have got good local support, and they come on-site when we have any challenges. Sophos provides a lot of good training all around Zimbabwe. They are quite dominant here, similar to other solutions like Fortinet or WatchGuard."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"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."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"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."
"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."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Sometimes when you roll out a new firmware, you find that the rules you already have in place are broken, so it's difficult to migrate to a new firmware. That's the only downside I've experienced in Sophos."
"Network security is in need of improvement."
"When I call, I have to wait at least one to two hours to reach them."
"The reporting could be improved in this solution by adding more details."
"It would be helpful if they had a set of standard templates because it would assist in the beginning, when you are just getting started."
"The solution could offer a bit more integration with other systems, with other platforms - just to be able to extend the capability and to interface with other kinds of platforms or systems that I can find on the market as it gives the possibility to improve the level of integration."
"The weakest point is the technical support because they are difficult to get into contact with."
"The solution could be improved if it offered more documentation or at least provided more information about the products themselves."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"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."
"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 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."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"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."
Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". 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 XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, SonicWall TZ and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos XG vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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