We evaluated pfSense, WatchGuard, and Sophos, and ultimately went with Untangle.

I am evaluating Cisco and some other firewall products. Cisco is a very reliable and scalable product for any network. FortiGate also has good firewall platforms.

We made a comparison with one of our clients that is running Sophos. However, Untangle NG Firewall had better ease of maintenance, configuration and deployment.

Before choosing this solution we tried both Sophos and WatchGuard.

Our clients evaluate Fortinet and pfSense. The flexibility to grow, the user-friendliness of the interface, and the common center facility are the advantages of Untangle NG Firewall. We can do everything in one console. 

Fortinet is very expensive. pfSense is free, but it is not as strong as Untangle. We have also experienced problems with the configuration of the HTTPS filter.  

On our shortlist was Untangle, Fortinet, and Kerio Control.

• WatchGuard is useless.
• Cyberoam can't get their VPN to work, so it crashes all the time.
• Salesforce is amazing, but it costs you an arm and a leg. Then, you have to get a technician and spend a fortune to train someone just to read the reports.
• Check Point is great, but only if you're a bank.

I am still actively supporting an configuring SonicWALL firewalls for my clients, and have evaluated Sophos, Seqrite, Endian, Fortinet, Kerio Control and the open-source PfSense.

We did evaluate other options. When we started using Untangle, the available options were very limited and not very cost-efficient.

Before choosing, I just did a bit of research on the internet to try to figure out how I can be able to use some of these products to sort out my issues and I bumped into Untangle. I know about other products, like Check Point, but I chose Untangle in particular to solve the problem and the issues I was having at the moment.

It is up-to-date and can compete even with the more expensive firewalls.