We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF and SonicWall TZ 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 license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"The built-in features function as intended, providing exceptional value."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"The level of support provided to local companies is good. They transform their application control and other settings according to that country."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"It is very user-friendly, and there is no problem in using its interface."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"SonicWall TZ is a stable product."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The user interface could be improved."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"It could be made more user friendly."
"Getting support can be slow."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and SonicWall NSa. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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