![]() ![]() ![]() Untangle really doesn’t block much of anything out of the box, whereas the Sophos UTM basically blocks everything out of the box with the few exceptions that you allow on the initial install wizard. I will keep playing with this however and see if there is a way to broaden this feature possibly?Īlso, just my initial feel between the two systems, the Sophos UTM just feels like a more secure enterprise system out of the box compared to Untangle. It will only search and filter for the major keywords on the left hand menu from my testing. It won’t find words or other smaller menus that are a sub tab from a menu for instance. However, one flaw of this is that it doesn’t find everything. If you don’t know where a menu that you are looking for is located, you can type in the keyword in the search box and it will pull up the menu for you! That is a brilliant design IMO. However, one of the strengths of the Sophos interface is the Search feature that is located on the top left of the interface. I would say that both systems have functionality which is buried under non intuitive locations. The Sophos interface feels more like a webpage that is driven from a menu system. However, Untangle definitely stands above on the look of the interface with the rack system design and clearly defined buttons on the rack modules which can activate and deactivate functionality. This isn’t really that big of a difference since I imagine most admins are managing their UTM devices remotely from a management workstation any way, but it is a difference that is worth mentioning as sometimes it is handy to be able to just open the KVM console and connect to your machine to perform a task if need be.īoth Untangle and Sophos are what I would call polished interfaces. The ISOs for the latest versions of both UTMs are very similar in size with the Sophos ISO for 9.304 being around 100MB larger than the Untangle 11 ISO.įor starters the management differences and similarities between the two – Untangle can be managed from the actual console of your physical appliance or your virtual appliance, while Sophos requires that you have another machine that can connect to the WebUI management interface in order to manage. ![]() Untangle much like the GUI interface looks more polished in the install environment while the Sophos installer looks like the “blue background” linux installers that we are used to seeing for the most part. The install time for both appliances on my older VMware environment seemed to be on par with one another. Let me detail a few of the comparisons and my thoughts between the two firewalls/UTMs.īoth Untangle and Sophos have pretty rock solid installers, both being 64-bit capable and both can run well inside of a VM environment. I have to say I wasn’t expecting a whole lot as far as being close to Untangle’s free offering, but I was really blown away at the functionality of the Sophos UTM appliance and have since swapped out my Untangle box in favor of the Sophos UTM appliance in my home network. The home use license includes almost all of the full blown functionality with the limit of 50 IP addresses as well as Sophos Endpoint Protection for up to 10 computers. Recently I was turned onto the Sophos UTM appliance that is a free download from Sophos for home use. ![]() However with more companies offering really good free firewalls and UTM’s I have been on a hunt and compare between Untangle and others out there. I have long been a fan of Untangle as a UTM and now as its branding as NGFW or Next generation firewall which in most senses is just a different way to brand UTM. Hackers and attacks have become more sophisticated and the attack vector has broadened with the ever increasing “connected” state of most individuals these days with mobile and other devices. UTM or Unified Threat Management devices are becoming more and more popular as businesses and corporations have realized in the past couple of years that a simple tradition firewall of allows and denies is not adequate any longer. ![]()
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