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.
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"It's a good security tool and it aligns with the rest of our security stack."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"It has a very friendly interface like the Cyberoam iNG units, it has customizable policies, it has proper templates that you can even modify, and you can customize the rules, down to each single user."
"Sophos XG Firewall is very usable, very easy to install, and very user friendly."
"The VPN features and its capabilities are great."
"There are many valuable features."
"The solution is easy to set up and configure."
"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."
"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."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"The interface is very good."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The solution could improve by having better security."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"The only area that requires improvement is scalability."
"I would like the update process to be easier, to update the firmware of the boxes. I think it's much better automatically than having to do it manually: Download the file, do network discovery. I they can make the update process much more automatic that would help."
"The logging side of it could definitely be better. Some of the logging lacks, and the information that they provide you, especially in the spam filtering section, could be better."
"The reports could improve, they do not seem complete and more information could be added."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"The product should improve reporting."
"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."
"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."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
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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