We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX 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 reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The tool's most valuable features are routing features and service quality."
"We like the solution’s protocol and its dashboard system."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The product’s quality and performance are better than other vendors."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"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."
"The interface is very good."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"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 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."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"The tool's basic license does not cover everything. It needs to improve visibility and availability."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"The hardware can be improved."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"We have a minor issue when assigning IP addresses in the ARP tables. You should be able to go into the ARP tables, look at the IP address and say, "Nope, they need to be on this side on this IP address." The ability to set a DHP reservation from the ARP tables would be great. It's no big deal, but it would be nice to have."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"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 product must improve its reporting features."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 30 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". 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". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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