We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"What I like about this product, which is the reason that we continue to use it, is that you can install the software version on your own hardware. In case there is a problem with the hardware, we can just install the firewall in another machine and restore the configuration."
"All features are useful. We are using premium features such as bandwidth sharing, failover, web filters, SSL controls, antivirus, and VPN. We use these features to the fullest. These features are available in the paid firewall license, not the free one."
"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."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"In the past, we've had trouble with Palo Alto's application filtering not getting it right. I would not be recommending layer 7 application filtering yet."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"The solution needs a series of OS changes."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"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 web content filtering needs improvement."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"The product should improve reporting."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"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."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"We seek the availability of the hardware in our region. The hardware-based firewall from Untangle is currently not available in our region. It should have threat protection on a real-time basis. This feature, available in Check Point and Sandstorm kind of scenario, is currently missing in Untangle NG Firewall."
Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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