We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"An efficient, easy to deploy and dependable firewall solution."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"It integrates with various Cisco security portfolios and products, and there is an easy and seamless integration for building a complete security framework for our customers."
"The solution's dashboard is fine, and in terms of support, Cisco is better than other OEMs in the market."
"The most important feature is its categorization because on the site and social media you are unified in the way they are there."
"Stability, high availability of services, and very high MTBU were the most valuable features for me."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"Everything is all documented in the file or in the command line script that gets uploaded to the device. It gives us great visibility."
"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."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"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 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 initial setup is very easy."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Most of the features don't work well, and some features are missing as well."
"It would be nice if you didn't have to configure using a command-line interface. It's a bit technical that way."
"In today's world, cyberattacks have become a common occurrence. However, so far, we have not faced any issues with our systems. I hope the situation remains the same in the future. If Cisco introduces even more advanced security measures, it would be beneficial."
"We use the FTD management platform for the boxes. The GUI that manages multiple Firepower boxes could be improved so that the user experience is better."
"The product line does not address the SMB market as it is supposed to do. Cisco already has an on-premises sandbox solution."
"It is surprising that you need to have a virtual appliance for the Firepower Management Center. It is not good if you have to setup a VMware server just for it."
"The service could use a little more web filtering. If I compare it to Cyberoam, Cyberoam has more the web filtering, so if you want to block a website, it's easier in other solutions than in Cisco."
"The most valuable features of the product are the VPN and the NextGen firewall features such as application control, URL filtering, etc."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"The product needs to improve its mobile application."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
"The biggest challenge that we have with this solution is local support. The local support is a problem in our area."
"The product must improve its reporting features."
"The web content filtering needs improvement."
"We seek the availability of the hardware in our region. The hardware-based firewall from Untangle is currently not available in our region. It should have threat protection on a real-time basis. This feature, available in Check Point and Sandstorm kind of scenario, is currently missing in Untangle NG Firewall."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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