We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The interface is very good."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The most important features are the intrusion prevention engine and the application visibility and control. The Snort feature in Firepower is also valuable."
"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"One of the most valuable features is the AMP. It's very good and very reliable when it comes to malicious activities, websites, and viruses."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"We feel that we can trust the security, and our assets and business are well protected. We need to have trust in it, but we also see that it works. We have a security company that has tested that it works."
"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 product is easy to implement."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"It is surprising that you need to have a virtual appliance for the Firepower Management Center. It is not good if you have to setup a VMware server just for it."
"Most users do not have awareness of this product's functionality and features. Cisco should do something to make them aware of them. That would be quite excellent and useful to organizations that are still using legacy data-center-security products."
"Some of the features, like the stability, need to be improved."
"Its interface is sometimes is a little bit slow, and it can be improved. When you need to put your appliance in failover mode, it is a little difficult to do it remotely because you need to turn off the appliance in Cisco mode. In terms of new features, it would be good to have AnyConnect VPN with Firepower. I am not sure if it is available at the moment."
"We wanted to integrate Firepower with our solution, but it didn't have the capability to accommodate our bandwidth since they only had two 10 gig interfaces on the box. We run way more than that through our network because we are a service provider, providing Internet to our customers."
"The IPS module is combined with the main operating system."
"I'm not very familiar with the largest Firepower models, but competitors like Palo Alto seem to have a more capable engine to do, for instance, TLS/SSL decryption. As I understand, Firepower doesn't let you export the decrypted traffic so that, for instance, the security department can look at the traffic or inspect traffic. It's all in the box. I've heard rumors that this is something Cisco is working on, but it isn't yet available."
"I would like to see more configurable feature parity with Cisco ASA, which is the legacy product that Cisco is moving away from. When configuring remote access VPN, not all of the options are there. You have to download another tool, which means that the configuration takes a little bit longer with Cisco Secure Firewall. Though it's getting there, there are still some features lagging behind."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"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 pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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