We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The security on offer is very good."
"By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"It is user-friendly and straightforward to manage, which simplifies our overall network security management."
"One of the valuable characteristics of Check Point NGFW is that it presents very centralized management."
"The management interface is easy to operate and is a standardized way of managing different firewall modules in the same client application."
"I think the VSX has been the most valuable feature for us."
"There is a lot of legacy traffic from other vendors that has been migrated to Check Point which has resulted in a lot of stability in our environment."
"Its management web interface is very easy and user-friendly."
"The packet inspection capabilities are great."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"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 most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"The tool must improve its support."
"There is a huge amount of revenue lost in the financial/banking sector due to cyber attacks, so we need to have something that can highly concentrate on future cyber attacks."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Sometimes there are security bugs, which is frustrating."
"One of the most complicated aspects is the VPN Configuration, which should be simplified in future releases."
"The virtual infrastructure of the central management requires a huge amount of resources to work properly and manage all the logs without problems."
"It would be great if the access management, the user management features, were improved in terms of the number of users that can be connected, and how users can access the various resources with the help of firewall authentication."
"The policy installation length is still too long. It was promised that the time would be severely reduced in newer versions, but it is still too long."
"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."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"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 management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and KerioControl. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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