# Arista NG Firewall Reviews **Vendor:** Arista Networks **Category:** [Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security-policy-management-nspm) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Arista NG Firewall NG Firewall simplifies network security with a single, modular, software platform that provides a browser-based, responsive and intuitive interface enabling you to quickly gain visibility into the traffic on your network. NG Firewall delivers a comprehensive, enterprise-grade network security platform including content filtering, advanced threat protection, VPN connectivity, application-based shaping for bandwidth optimization. ## Arista NG Firewall Reviews ### 1. Reseller/User/OEM from KPM Computer Solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin M. | IT Manager / Owner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** GUI Interface and the ease of configuration. It is easy to adapt to numerous hardware devices. The apps add another dimension to security and the ability to see what is happening. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Being in an environment that has mobile users bringing their own devices and using public wifi the pay per device model is difficult to stomach. Over 150 of our licenses are just user's cell phones. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tunneling, traffic shaping, and more. It is like an eye in the sky. The dashboard on our parter portal allows us to see all of our appliances at once and manage from afar. ### 2. Easy to Use and Comprehensive Firewall Solution & More **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill T. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Untangle NG Firewall is easy to deploy and use. You can expand functionality by purchasing plugins for only what you want. Licensing is simple as it is per device for all services. You can bypass devices to save licenses (for example: for IoT devices or printers bypassing Content Filtering). **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Content Filtering can be problematic when a website is flagged to multiple categories or when categories include diverse or uncategorized content, as you'll encounter blocked pages or false-positive alerts. Since licensing is done per device, you must have enough for the maximum number of clients you could have connected, so content filtering guest Wi-Fi, for example, could require a large investment. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** NG Firewall (Complete) provides a secure perimeter with numerous other services such as Content Filtering, VPN, WAN Failover and Load Balancing while providing good reporting, a beautiful dashboard and remote monitoring. ### 3. Arista NG Firewall - good stuff! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark L. | Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Excellent support - always helpful and insightful when I have specific customer problems I need to solve **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** A few struggles since the Arista buyout, but still a happy customer so far so good ... **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** The remote management portal makes working on my customer's needs easy and provides single pane of glass to see how our installed base of NG Firewall is doing. ### 4. Great solution with great support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin B. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** I like the features and flexibility. We have the ability to build a custom box and run the software on it. We also have the ability to purchase hardware/appliances ready to go. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** I don't like the dated interface. It could be polished up **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using it in site to site vpn's with solid stability ### 5. Very reliable & Top security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John J. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Very little maintenance. Once it is setup it runs very smoothly without maintenance. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Really doesn't have any downsides. Very happy with the product. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing our network well and helps us lock down web browsing to reduce risks. ### 6. Wonderful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** I have found the NG firewall very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** I have some issues with active directory connections. Usually, a reboot fixes the connections **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proxys - The list is pretty comprehensive. It has allowed me to keep control ### 7. a must in a k-12 environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** We live web filtering and ad blocking features of the NG firewall **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** The cost - Software as a service is a terrible business model that I hope goes out of fashion **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** It blocks ads and content we don't want grade school kids seeing. ### 8. The product does a great job for a great price. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derron W. | Chief Information Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** For small organizations, it does many things in one appliance. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** I wish we had more DMZ options. However, the product does perform really well. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bandwidth shaping, application inspection, BitTorrent blocking. ### 9. Works great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Easy to install and use, lots of control. Automated configuration backups, tons of reports for data collection. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about the internal workings of routers **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** They have a free version as well as trials. it runs great in a VM so you don't even have to dedicate hardware to it if you're interested in testing it out. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have 6 deployed, doing web filtering, application control and VPN (and more) they're consistent and easy to use, and with the command center I can access them from anywhere at any time. ### 10. Easy and Simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Untangle is simple to use with nice dashboards that display a lot of information and reports. We recently switched to a paid version and prior to that, even when we didn't have a support plan the support team still helped us out as much as they could. All of their apps are really useful that allows you to filter sites, and whitelist sites easily or a WAN balancer with alerts whenever one of them goes down. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** I don't have anything I dislike about Untangle, we haven't had a bad experience yet. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** One day, one of nowhere we started getting a bunch of email alert from our Antivirus that it prevented an intrusion and we took a look and couldn't find anything wrong on the device. It kept on continuing and it turns out that the user was accessing a grocery store website that had malware on it and so we used the web filter to block those kinds of site. ### 11. Excellent Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Have used Untangle for 8+ years - started out using the free edition and then moved to the paid version. Nice dashboard, very granular control over all aspects. Firewall, Virus, Spam, Phishing, AD integration, Web Filtering, Application Control. System is very stable, reporting is good. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** There is nothing I don't like - very in depth product - just take the time to learn its capabilities **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Untangle has provided us with the ability to protect the system with a robust platform and have excellent auditing control over internet activity. ### 12. Stay in control of your perimiter with an awsome dashboard and support team behind it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason B. | Technical Support | Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Untangle has been the firewall of choice for 8 years. The product has continued to hold its value throughout the changes in the industry as well as the integration with other product. For any startup user, this would be an excellent teaching tool while using it. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** The rules and setup for the IPSEC is still hard code based and does require more knowldege on the back end to be able to understand how to deploy and implement some advanced features. If the forums or threads could include more step by step methods, primarily for the lite users, we won't be left behind. the speed: I would like for Untangle to feature some sort of comparison or effort to compare to Ubiquity Edge products, for Example the Edge Lite - can handle 1Million Packets and is a very fast router. Could you offer a recommendation for users to also benefit in that aspect? Does Untangle offer a modular OS that can co-exist with other powerful processes? It would be interesting to put untangle behind a robust network interface, CPU, and I/O storage. Dream Build: nVme 128Gb SSD, quad core cpu, 16Gb RAM, independent NIC processor and cache. **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** Definitely all three choices work well. Build your own, Virtual, or physical appliance. The dashboard is the same. Thank you Untangle. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** We block anything and everything we want, straight on. The VPN is really nice to work with and the exclusive firewall/network interface rules. Remote workers have greatly benefitted. We were also able to pass the PCI compliance. MANY THANKS TO YOUR SALES TEAM, UNTANGLE! Your sales agent quickly referred to the correct product subscription and we were up and running within the hour. ### 13. Good Small Business Firewall **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Simple to use Graphical Interface makes this very powerful. The base functions are Free then you purchase additional apps or pay for the full versions of the included free ones. The untangle firewall unit is divided up into apps so you use only what you need. It can do VPN access from a PC or another untangle box so its great for other locations. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Not much, the full paid version get expensive when you buy and use most of this unit for free. **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** This is a great firewall for the none Cisco command line user. I tend to like GUI interfaces so I can see the full picture of whats happening and how its setup. This unit you can grow into starting with the Free setup and purchase what you need as you grow. Its a very powerful and robust firewall, router, VPN unit. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Firewall, WAN Failover, IPsec VPN, OpenVPN. ### 14. Great teaching tool! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah G. | IT Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** We use these as a teaching tool in the CIST department, using either VMware or Hyper-V. The students learn how to create and maintain VLANs using untangled routers, how to use domain controllers in that network, and, how to use tools such as Active Directory to enhanse the network; receiving hands-on learning in a large business' networking needs. **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** There is not much to dislike. The students all have trouble at the beginning just using the software, but most catch on quickly. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating VPNs and simulating large organizations to better understand networking. ### 15. Been installing for years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Versatility and professional product always works **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** No clone mac address feature would be great that is my only critique and if web filter lite was back instead of web monitor **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** absolutely **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Unified Security appliance ### 16. Untangle review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rhonda A. | Adjunct Professor, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Really worked to filter websites in a school environment **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** Required the IT person to make adjustments for the staff members **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** Make sure you have a good IT professional to configure and troubleshoot **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solid filtering for businesses and education providers ### 17. It's the best alterantive for free UTM product. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marius Iulian H. | Coordonator Birou IT și Tehnic, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Arista NG Firewall?** Easy to deploy and configured Many free options (webfiltering, antivirus, antispam, intrusion prevention, etc ...) Many usefull reports **What do you dislike about Arista NG Firewall?** There are few category for webfiltering in the free version (but for educational purpose the price is lower) **Recommendations to others considering Arista NG Firewall:** Make a backup. It's easy and you can make restore more easy. **What problems is Arista NG Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?** Untangle is used in the library to provide public Internet access. - [View Arista NG Firewall pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/arista-ng-firewall/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-12+11%3A46%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bd203684-d28d-4292-8089-8e949809b07c&secure%5Btoken%5D=7258f90849c70c1214d4a07d1913ced237397d74cc0fd3c301c41973c1917e07&format=llm_user) ## Arista NG Firewall Features **Network Maintenance** - Auditing **Administration** - Policy Management - Logging and Reporting - Application Gateway - Concurrent Sessions **Agentic AI - Firewall Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning **Network Management** - Network Mapping - Compliance - Reporting - Console **Functionality** - Virtual Private Network (VPN) - Antivirus - URL Filtering - Availability **Network Monitoring** - Network Monitoring - Configuration Monitoring - Change Management **Monitoring** - Load Balancing - Continuous Analysis - Intrusion Prevention - Intrusion Detection **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Artificial Intelligence - Firewall** - AI Firewall ## Top Arista NG Firewall Alternatives - [Sophos Firewall](https://www.g2.com/products/sophos-firewall/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (671 reviews) - [Netgate pfSense](https://www.g2.com/products/netgate-pfsense/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (318 reviews) - [FortiGate-VM NGFW](https://www.g2.com/products/fortigate-vm-ngfw/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (214 reviews)