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."The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The VPN is our most widely used feature for Cisco Secure Firewall. Since we were forced into a hybrid working situation by COVID a few years back, VPN is the widely used feature because everybody is working remotely for our agency. So it came in very handy."
"Firewall help with cybersecurity resilience. I really like this Cisco product. It's user-friendly. I don't like some other vendors. I've tried those in the past. Cisco is pretty easy. A caveman could do it."
"Basic firewalling is obviously the most valuable. In addition to that, secure access and remote access are also very useful for us."
"AnyConnect has been very helpful, along with the ability to use LDAP for authentication."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"Being able to use it as a policy-based VPN is valuable. It's very easy to understand. It's very easy to troubleshoot."
"We definitely feel more secure. We have more control over things going in and out of our network."
"At this point, we find that this product has high productivity and high availability and there is no need for improvement."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"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."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"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."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"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."
"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."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"I would like it to be easier to work with and have a better user interface. It is not straightforward. You need to know the Cisco command-line interface."
"I have worked with the new FTD models and they have more features than the ASA line."
"The ASAs are being replaced with the new Firepowers and they have a different type of structure in the configuration to be able to migrate from one to the other."
"The management of the firewalls could be improved because there are a lot of bugs."
"It should have an additional “operating mode”, like a “candidate configuration mode”, where you would have the possibility to test the changes you are going to implement and also the possibility to validate these changes."
"The worst part of the entire solution, and this is kind of trivial at times, is that management of the solution is difficult. You manage FireSIGHT through an internet browser. I've had Cisco tell me to manage it through Firefox because that's how they develop it. The problem is, depending on the page you're on, they don't function in the same way. The pages can be very buggy, or you can't resize columns in this one, or you can't do certain things in that one. It causes a headache in managing it."
"The product would be improved if the GUI could be brought into the 21st Century."
"There may have been one or two incidences of malicious threats."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"We have a minor issue when assigning IP addresses in the ARP tables. You should be able to go into the ARP tables, look at the IP address and say, "Nope, they need to be on this side on this IP address." The ability to set a DHP reservation from the ARP tables would be great. It's no big deal, but it would be nice to have."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th 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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