We performed a comparison between Untangle NG Firewall and Zscaler Cloud 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."Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The majority of our clients are very small businesses, and Untangle devices have been fantastic for these small clients. We've basically standardized our stack to just simply use Untangle. We include the hardware and the service option, which makes it very easy and affordable for us to just simply push that into the monthly per-user costing that we provide as a managed services provider. It's really a no-brainer. They're easy to use, and they're easy to set up and configure. Support is generally good about resolving any issues that we have. We haven't had any real complaints."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The product is easy to implement."
"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."
"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 straightforward."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"It is a stable solution."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"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 product should improve reporting."
"The hardware can be improved."
"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 ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Untangle NG Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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