We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"The VPN features and its capabilities are great."
"Reporting is the most valuable feature."
"Sophos is a comrehensive solution which allows me to configure all the attendant products, such as Sophos' firewall, Endpoint and Encryption features."
"The user interface is very good. It's already quite simple and easy to use."
"The solution was able to be integrated well with exciting hardware and software and in multiple business sectors."
"Great interface and in-built help is very intuitive."
"As a security solution, it's a very good security solution."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"The initial setup is very easy."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"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."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"On reports, they sometimes give a summary, but it lists different users as unknown. There are times that I really want to know which user or which IP is causing a problem."
"Everything is working as expected at this moment, but the anti-spam solution in Sophos XG needs to be improved. It needs more granular features and more stability. The anti-spam solution currently doesn't have many features, and we would like to have more features. At this moment, there is no expression filter for anti-spam. We need something to be able to filter subjects or attachments in emails based on the keyword. Sometimes, there is an issue with anti-spam, and Sophos XG suddenly stops processing incoming or outgoing emails. The only solution for this issue is to restart the appliance. Their support should be improved. It takes a long time to escalate a support case from level one to level two."
"The weakest point is the technical support because they are difficult to get into contact with."
"The vendor doesn’t publish the price on the website."
"The reports could improve, they do not seem complete and more information could be added."
"The initial set up process can be a little tricky, especially when you are registering with Sophos using your registration number. Setup is not necessarily complex, but it's not trouble-free. You do have connectivity issues at the initial setup with registering the device on the Sophos platform to access the advanced features. It doesn't always go through the first time around. That may be an issue with the quality of our automation. I'm not sure exactly what it is."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the policy and simplify the policy-making, as the complexity of it makes it really tough."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"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."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"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."
"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 hardware can be improved."