We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The solution is stable."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"Great security and connectivity."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The initial setup is straightforward; Azure Firewall does not have a complex implementation process. It is very simple; you just need to enable the service within Azure. It does not require any maintenance because it is managed by Microsoft, that is, it is a fully managed service."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"SonicWall provides endpoint security with advanced protection. Moreover, SonicWall includes access points and additional features."
"I like this solution because we are focused on VPN and have many brands that need to link a VPN and have security, like ransomware, spyware, and basic protection."
"Sometimes I have some queries, and the SonicWall support team resolves my queries."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
"The product could expand its throughput capacity."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 33 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Azure Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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