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 scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"It is very easy to configure and straightforward. The firewall rules are straightforward. It works great out of the box. It has been working as advertised, and I haven't had any issues with it."
"The solution comes with a common bundle which comprises all the feature."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"We can configure rules with the user, traffic, etc., making it a very versatile solution for our network."
"I have found configuring the ports to be easier in Sophos XG compared to the other devices."
"The filtering is very easy to do. You can segment and create profiles for usage very easily."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it's easy to manage."
"I like their firewall and the intrusion detection feature"
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"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 initial setup is very easy."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"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 product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"I am using the Azure Active Directory in my company and it was complicated to integrate this solution with Azure."
"Technical support could be improved. They aren't as responsive as they could be."
"The UI needs improvement because it can be a little weird at times."
"They need to improve the SD-WAN feature."
"Their updates can be faster and more regular."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"Better instructions should be provided as part of the technical support so that we can understand the functionalities. This will help us to troubleshoot faster."
"We encounter difficulties while navigating through certain features and functionalities of the product."
"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."
"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."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"The common center facility that Untangle provides should be available on-premises. There are great corporations here in Mexico that like the Untangle solution, but they don't like the fact that the monitoring and access to the appliance are in the cloud. They request for the common center facility to be available and installed on-premises."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
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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