We performed a comparison between Sophos XGS 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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are bandwidth management, content filtering, and WAN link management failover. If one internet activity or one link would fail, automatically it will switch over to another one."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"In this solution, the most valuable feature is that it's a security device. Maintaining security is very valuable for us. The other feature that we did not find in other products is that it works well with thin client environments."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"The Sophos XGS product is highly versatile and well-suited for various companies, including small, medium, and large enterprises. Its effectiveness lies in its inspection firewall capabilities, making it a commonly chosen option in our country due to its reasonable pricing. Sophos Firewall's support for VPN encryption and thorough inspection makes it a suitable choice for many companies, and I recommend it accordingly. At the moment, I can't propose any new features. The primary concern is the traffic stability, which needs improvement. Although the traffic stability is generally good, it has been noted that it can impact RAM and CPU, affecting workflow and inspection."
"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."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"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."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"Its detection, antivirus, and filtering features are the most valuable. The facility to connect by using the VPN connection is also a very valuable feature. It is very strong, secure, and reliable. We have implemented the Untangle solution in all hardware. It is also a user-friendly solution. It is easy to learn and easy to configure."
"The Untangle firewall is a software firewall, so it runs on generic hardware. We found that was probably the best feature, and it's why we chose it when we started using it three years ago."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The application is a little slow; it takes five to ten seconds to respond to every click when configuring. If we need to do significant configuration, it can take a lot of time. This might be because we have a low-end machine, and it could be faster with a high-end one."
"The support team are helpful when you eventually get hold of them which takes a long time. They can improve how quickly you get technical support."
"The first time a person sets it up, they will need training."
"Sophos XGS would benefit from further development in the SD-WAN area."
"There are a lot of false-positive cases."
"The customer service response time can be improved."
"Sophos XGS could improve the automation system. It could be better if there was some level of automation, attacks automation, meaning if this happens, then it automatically executes a particular process."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
"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."
"The management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"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."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Sophos XGS is rated 7.8, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". 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 XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM. See our Sophos XGS vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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