We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"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."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The GUI is good."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The solution is very robust."
"The filtering was very good."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"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."
"The interface is very good."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"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."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"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."
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Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention 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 UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ.
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