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."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The stability of Sophos XG is very good. However, there have been some issues with other weaker models because they are limited in hardware in resources."
"The performance of Sophos XG is generally good and it is stable."
"It's a complete firewall solution that has everything."
"Most of the features Sophos XG has are valuable. However, if I have two different ISP, I'm able to create an automatic switch between the two ISPs. I can do the same thing for the cloud as well. If I have two subnets coming from the cloud, I'm able to create a type of switch between both of them where if there is traffic on one and has the traffic drop, I'm able to switch to the other ISP without any problems. It's a normal feature and I get to enjoy the ability to switch between services with no issues."
"We can configure rules with the user, traffic, etc., making it a very versatile solution for our network."
"We get good usage out of the features. It has enabled us to gain popularity. It has great features."
"Excellent product, meets most of the security needs of companies of various sizes. You can buy it without fear."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Its detection, antivirus, and filtering features are the most valuable. The facility to connect by using the VPN connection is also a very valuable feature. It is very strong, secure, and reliable. We have implemented the Untangle solution in all hardware. It is also a user-friendly solution. It is easy to learn and easy to configure."
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"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."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"It needs more available central management."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"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 cloud support needs to be improved."
"The price should be cheaper."
"Having a web portal where you could make requests for the categorization of non-categorized items, would be beneficial."
"Its user interface is a little bit slow."
"Even though things work on the back end, we have encountered bugs in the solution."
"I would like to have remote access to clients using a static IP for a certain period of time."
"Sometimes when you roll out a new firmware, you find that the rules you already have in place are broken, so it's difficult to migrate to a new firmware. That's the only downside I've experienced in Sophos."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"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."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"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."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."