Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued) vs. Untangle NG Firewall

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Barracuda Content Shield Plus was a cloud-based service that combines content filtering, file-based protection, granular policy enforcement and reporting, centralized management, and real-time threat intelligence to protect users, an organization, and its brand. It is reaching end of life (EoL) and will be discontinued.N/A
Untangle NG Firewall
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Untangle NG Firewall is an open-source firewall and gateway security platform. It offers a free core firewall platform with paid add-ons, and a cloud-based management platform with a variety of deployment options for smaller teams.
$25
per month
Pricing
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Editions & Modules
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Open Source Firewall
$0.00
free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
NG Firewall Complete
$25.00
per month
z4 appliance
$299
one-time purchase
z4w appliance
$329
one-time purchase
z4 Plus appliance
$399.00
one-time purchase
z6 appliance
$1199.00
one-time purchase
z12 appliance
$1999.00
one-time purchase
z20 appliance
$3499.00
one-time purchase
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Top Pros
Top Cons

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Features
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Untangle NG Firewall
8.2
6 Ratings
3% below category average
Identification Technologies00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Content Inspection00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Policy-based Controls00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Firewall Management Console00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Reporting and Logging00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
VPN00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
High Availability00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Stateful Inspection00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Proxy Server00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Barracuda Content Shield (discontinued)Untangle NG Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Barracuda Content Shield is well suited to large companies with many employees that are based in many areas and have various aspects of their job that need them to be on the internet at all times and in many cases opening themselves to many threats. It may be less appropriate for small companies that are in individualized clusters
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Untangle
Untangle is very strong in the "traditional" sense of security. That means an edge appliance that either works with an existing router or is the router itself (recommended). This approach has also been adapted well to cloud environments in order to protect virtual servers and VDI workstations. As mentioned earlier, many schools are using cloud-based filtering for their 1:1 solutions for their students. This is an area where Untangle is unable to serve. Some have used an instance of Untangle in the cloud with VPN to serve their remote needs, but it is not the same as solutions that are designed for cloud-based filtering of devices without VPN.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Easy to use
  • Layout of program looks like an email so its easy to read and identify
  • Helped many suspicious senders from getting into our system
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Untangle
  • Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
  • Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
  • Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
  • Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Increased policy customization
  • Filtering policy preferences
  • Increased manual settings
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Untangle
  • The full suite can be expensive for business but will be powerful enough.
  • The full suite for home or small office isn't that bad of a price but may be out of reach for most home users but remember the basics are FREE so anyone can get started with it.
  • I would like to see it promoted for mid to large businesses as I think it can handle it.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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Untangle
Service renewal is in Feb 2021. We will be renewing!
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Usability
Discontinued Products
I think the program is easy to use, I think there are more functions it can have or better ability to customize the layout so it doesn't look so plain
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Untangle
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
I have only had to call twice for access issues but it has been overall a normal experience.
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Untangle
I haven't used them much, but they did answer my question quickly.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Barracuda Content Shield was compared to this product and in our opinion was more robust and cost effective for our growing firm. Barracuda allowed us to create filtering that worked for our firm and allowed us to make the customization easy so that all employees had access to what they needed and were not shut out.
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Untangle
NG Firewall was much more friendly in terms of layout and ease of use, the apps section is familiar to anyone and the config while in a sort of odd order is very clearly laid out. I also appreciate Untangle's endless educational videos and the support can't be beat. Overall it was more of a complete package
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Increased Reporting Times
  • Threat Training time increase
  • Policy enforcement increased time
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Untangle
  • The positive is the savings in time the IT department has recouped by not having to continuously clean and maintain end point computers. Not to mention helping end user use their time more wisely by not wasting time on non-work related web activities.
  • The only negative is complaints from end users about the restrictions.
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