Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW) vs Untangle NG Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent enterprise grade solution with full features to perform any security scenario. Available licenses that can be customized to suit the security needs. Backed by Cisco Talos security centre that provides IPS and security signatures to keep the business protected at all times. Backed by manufacturer support and excellent help desk resources.

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Victor Lau

Network Architect

BSSTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Midsized business is where I have used it. Have used it to connect to other Untangle boxes across town and in other countries with NO issues and works with MS Domains across these VPN connections. Probably less appropriate for small home networks or large businesses.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)

Untangle NG Firewall

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

Its very fast
Cisco products are generally very stable.
Cisco is on top of bug fixes.
You get well built hardware at this price point.
Compatibility with most 3rd party equipment.

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Manager in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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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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Professional in Information Technology

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The integration between ASA/Firewall functions and SourceFire functions could use some work.
Some little glitches in the interface which require refreshes or additional clicks.
Cost is high but it is likely because you're now buying two products in one.

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Engineer in Engineering

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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The dashboard could be a little more customizable.
I've run into situations where custom reports do not save correctly.
It's not always clear where certain configurations are located, but it's still easy to find them quickly.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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Untangle NG Firewall 10.0

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Service renewal is in Feb 2021. We will be renewing!

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW) 8.0

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It's overall very great, however the Management Console needs updating to fix the slowness of policy and rule deployments.

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Kenneth Ma

AVP Network Security Team Lead

East West BankFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

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Support Rating

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW) 8.0

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Cisco support is not at all suitable for this product, at least. It takes a long for them to help us with our server issues. A lot of the time, the customer support person keeps on redirecting calls to another person. They need to be well versed with the terminologies of the product they are supporting us with. Support needs a lot of improvement. Cisco Fire Linux OS, the operating system behind Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire), also doesn't receive regular patches. In short, average customer service.

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Kuntal Das

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Colorado DenverHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Untangle NG Firewall 8.8

Based on 3 answers

I haven't used them much, but they did answer my question quickly.

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Matthew Ingram

Owner

Ingram Computer ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We selected Firepower after evaluating all features in nonproduction environment and validated against other similar vendors such as Fortinet, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Sophos and Watchguard. NGFW provides flexibility in selecting the licensing model and is very cost-effective, easy to integrate with third-party tools and applications and offers user-friendly control.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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The Untangle NG Firewall is way more intuitive but the last barracuda I used was almost 8 years ago.

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Ken Thomas

Systems Technician

Preston Memorial HospitalHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Not having security levels on the Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire) negatively impacted when we cutover.
It has been rock solid in the running, has not been any downtime.

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Cody Plassmeyer

IT Network Specialist

Central Electric Power CooperativeUtilities, 51-200 employees

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Before my installation, I was getting called 3-4 times a week to clean malware infections. Now I am getting called 3-4 times a year.
Employees are far more productive when they can't access their social media from their work computers.
Spam has been blocked and quarantined from hitting our users' inboxes, drastically reducing the time it takes to sort through daily email.

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Gary Lamontagne

Network and Systems Administrator

Coos County Family Health ServicesHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Untangle NG Firewall Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

z4 appliance	$299¹
z4w appliance	$329¹
z4 Plus appliance	$399.00¹
z6 appliance	$1199.00¹
z12 appliance	$1999.00¹
z20 appliance	$3499.00¹

one-time purchase

SaaS Edition

Open Source Firewall	$0.00¹
NG Firewall Complete	$25.00²

free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
per month

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Rating Summary

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)

Untangle NG Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)

Untangle NG Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)

Untangle NG Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)

Untangle NG Firewall