We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The solution can scale well."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"The interface is very good."
"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."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"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 product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"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."
"We seek the availability of the hardware in our region. The hardware-based firewall from Untangle is currently not available in our region. It should have threat protection on a real-time basis. This feature, available in Check Point and Sandstorm kind of scenario, is currently missing in Untangle NG Firewall."
"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."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"Web-filtering policies could 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 hardware can be improved."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 6th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 22 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". 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 UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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