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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"The initial setup was easy."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"We find the web filter very valuable."
"None of my clients has had a ransom or breach using Untangle."
"The interface is very good."
"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."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"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."
"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."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"They could reduce the price."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"The product should improve reporting."
"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 management console for partners is a bit tricky (buggy)."
"The hardware can be improved."
"The storage is minimal, so we have to set the system to delete data after seven days."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"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."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 6th 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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