We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate vs SonicWall NSa based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiGate has the winning edge in this comparison. Customers are more satisfied with Fortinet FortiGate’s scalability, robust features, and ROI.
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"The technical support is very good."
"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 feature I've found is VPN and web protection, particularly with navigation assessment. We use the application control feature to create rules controlling specific application navigation."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"It has excellent stability."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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