We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos XGS 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."The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The interface is very good."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"Sophos XGS is profound as a firewall and security product."
"The Sophos XGS product is highly versatile and well-suited for various companies, including small, medium, and large enterprises. Its effectiveness lies in its inspection firewall capabilities, making it a commonly chosen option in our country due to its reasonable pricing. Sophos Firewall's support for VPN encryption and thorough inspection makes it a suitable choice for many companies, and I recommend it accordingly. At the moment, I can't propose any new features. The primary concern is the traffic stability, which needs improvement. Although the traffic stability is generally good, it has been noted that it can impact RAM and CPU, affecting workflow and inspection."
"The solution is cost-effective and easy to manage."
"I like the Sophos UI. It interface has a more comfortable feel than the competitors."
"It is very stable. I have not heard of any issue where clients would have to replace hardware. It's been really stable for a long while."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"I rate Sophos' support five out of 10. It's sometimes difficult to contact them, and finding a solution is not easy."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSv, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos XGS report.
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