We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"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 initial setup is very easy."
"The interface is very good."
"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."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The product helps small and medium enterprises secure their networks from intrusions. It also has features like DNS blocking."
"Web filtering is very reliable."
"NG Firewalls allow us to permit or deny applications we don't want to run. We also use content filtering, SSL inspection, and all the other things we run on the firewall to keep our clients protected and ensure they're not going where they shouldn't. It's a great firewall that works as intended."
"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."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"Web-filtering policies could be improved."
"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 product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"For the web filter, I think they can do better especially on the free model."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The pricing should be reduced because it is expensive."
"The ability to setup a DDNS for each WAN independently would be a very handy feature."
"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."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews while Untangle NG Firewall is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while Untangle NG Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". 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". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Untangle NG Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM and SonicWall TZ. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. Untangle NG Firewall report.
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