We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Untangle NG Firewall, and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"NG Firewalls allow us to permit or deny applications we don't want to run. We also use content filtering, SSL inspection, and all the other things we run on the firewall to keep our clients protected and ensure they're not going where they shouldn't. It's a great firewall that works as intended."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The biggest thing for us was to build our own policies. The deployment itself was only a few hours."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"The product should improve reporting."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"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."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"Zscaler should provide adjacent services, which would be complementary to their current offering that could to be more pragmatic for a customer. For example, if you take Akamai, you get multiple sets of services, all depending on the customer and the strategy and the complexity and the problems. In some areas, they are more varied in terms of coverage."
"When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. "
"The performance needs improvement. Some areas create performance issues and, depending on the use cases, require reconfiguration to perform again."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
