We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The most valuable features are site-to-site connections and UTM."
"The web GUI is easy to use."
"FortiGate integrates well."
"The solution is very easy to set up. It doesn't take a lot of time and offers a quick deployment, so you can start using it almost right away."
"High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the ease of use, IPS system, application filter, web filtering, and email security. Additionally, there is a migration tool that other vendors do not provide. We only need to upload the configuration file to the tool, and it converts everything, except the passwords, and gives us the new configuration, which we can directly upload on the firewall. This migration process takes a maximum of 15 minutes."
"Fortinet-VM is more scalable than the hardware version. If you're using an appliance, there are limitations in terms of hardware specs. So if you want a more scalable firewall, you can get a VM and install it on a high-end server."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"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 product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"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 web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"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 interface is very good."
"They have a command center that makes it easy to log into and see all of your appliances nationwide."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The support system could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"It would be better if it could provide you with options before completely blocking anything through the web filter. If you are doing a deep SSL inspection on the site if it says it's expired, it doesn't give you the option to continue at your own risk. I can't say that it's bad, but SSL internally isn't really a requirement. However, its security features can help. Right now, we have people going out and spending on purchasing the SSL certificates for internal sites."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"The product needs to focus on cloud-nativeness and pricing."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Technical support could be better."
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"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."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"It does have multi-factor authentication in some areas, but I would love to see a more widely implemented version of that on the devices themselves."
"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 hardware can be improved."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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