Tomato Firmware on router? How much better if so?

[motox781]

I have a Netgear router running the newest version of Advanced Tomato:

1.28.0000 -3.5-140 K26ARM USB AIO-128K

on a Netgear R6400 router.

My question:

How much more secure is Tomato out of the box than Netgear's default firmware?

I used such practices as: disabling UPnP, WPS, HTTP management and created a good WIFI name/password with WPA2 encryption. Admin is also locked down with a good password. Service is on a dynamic IP.

Anyhow, my question really pertains to the other features Tomato might have incorporated, if any (IPS...etc)? I don't know much about the specifics of Tomato's security.

@ForgottenSeer 58943

Thanks!

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

I don't think tomato has any UTM features at all. However it is opensource, so the chance of backdoors drops significantly. I actually prefer DD-WRT over Tomato personally, but that's just me.

Good article here;

DD-WRT and Tomato: Which Is the Best Router Firmware?

 

[motox781]

Thanks!