We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate 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 solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The security on offer is very good."
"It performs very well."
"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."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"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."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"It is not attached to an appliance, meaning if you get a good PC/server, then you can already run a firewall."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". 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". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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