We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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."I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"It is a safe product."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"It is a stable solution."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"It enables us to not only detect but also prevent various types of incoming threats, allowing us to take appropriate corrective actions and exercise control over the network."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"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 most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"They've become quite expensive."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The support for YouTube or the Internet is not enough."
"Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications."
"The tool is expensive."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"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 hardware can be improved."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"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."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". 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". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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