We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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."You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"Since SonicWall is a UTM, we have enabled all the features: antivirus, IPS, URL filtering, and content filtering. All of these features are working fine."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"The tool is expensive."
"The GUI needs to be improved, lacks logic in some areas."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"The cost could be lower. There could also be more flexibility for smaller companies."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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