We performed a comparison between Stormshield Network Security and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, Cisco, WatchGuard and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"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."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"A very robust product."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"This solution is quick 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."
"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."
"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."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"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."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"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."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"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 product should improve reporting."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"The hardware can be improved."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 6th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 22 reviews. Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". 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". Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ.
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