We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"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 is very flexible to use."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"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."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"The majority of our clients are very small businesses, and Untangle devices have been fantastic for these small clients. We've basically standardized our stack to just simply use Untangle. We include the hardware and the service option, which makes it very easy and affordable for us to just simply push that into the monthly per-user costing that we provide as a managed services provider. It's really a no-brainer. They're easy to use, and they're easy to set up and configure. Support is generally good about resolving any issues that we have. We haven't had any real complaints."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"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."
"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."
"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 pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 22 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". 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". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and KerioControl, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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