We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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 stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"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."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"It can expand easily."
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be the caching feature."
"I have found the most valuable features to be the policies, cache, and the SD-WAN."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"This is an easy means of setting up high-availabilty firewall protection."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"The interface is good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"The most valuable features are IPS, MAPI, NAT, and VPN."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"The product’s most valuable features are endpoint protection management, load balancing, and connectivity with Active Directory."
"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."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"It would be better if AWS instances were available. If I want to upgrade from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available rather than having a big instance and paying a lot of money for that. The issue is that we had deployed in AWS Cloud, and we were using a very small instance. Recently we wanted to move in-house and deploy it on the big instance because it was struggling with the RAM. If we use T2.small, we cannot upgrade it to the T2.medium. It has predefined instances in the marketplace with a lot of cost differences. If I can increase the RAM, I have to choose the T3.large instance. If I'm paying $270 for the small instance, I have to pay more than double the cost for T3.large. It is about $850, and this is not good. So, it would be better if it was cheaper. I think both AWS and Fortinet should think about that. They should provide it on lower instances as well. If I want to upgrade it from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available, but it's a problem."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"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 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."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"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 is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"Whenever there are a large number of endpoint VPN clients, connectivity becomes slow."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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