We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"I haven't had any data leaks or vulnerability situations."
"The management interface is easy to operate and is a standardized way of managing different firewall modules in the same client application."
"The user interface is very cool and easy to use."
"Check Point has an awesome price-to-benefit ratio, netting you an awesome throughput of IDS/IPS capability compared to Palo Alto, Cisco, and so on."
"Check Point has strong security features as well as some decent monitoring and management capabilities."
"One of the solution's best features include a packet-filtering firewall that examines packets in isolation."
"It provides a central station where it is very easy to deploy our firewall policy in one click to many firewalls. This is one of the leading perks. It saves time by having one central station because I can deploy the same kind of policy to many firewalls at once."
"The different hardware models focus on a wide spectrum of the market, so any company can choose a model that makes sense for them from the range."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"The interface is very good."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive. In the pricing structure, however, they need improvement."
"Currently, upgrades are quite cumbersome."
"The interface can be more user-friendly in terms of design and the location of critical and commonly used icons."
"They should integrate all blades to use a single policy rather than multiple."
"Reporting has to be improved."
"There is a huge amount of revenue lost in the financial/banking sector due to cyber attacks, so we need to have something that can highly concentrate on future cyber attacks."
"This solution requires management software that is sold separately; it's actually a different appliance altogether."
"We need east/west Check Point firewalls in order to do micro-segmentation."
"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 pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"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 web content filtering needs improvement."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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