We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM 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."This is an easy solution to deploy."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The interface is very good."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"We like the central interface and we like the security features. Additionally, we use SonicWall with VPN connectivity and we have had no problems with SonicWall all these years."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The pricing could always be better."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"We have experienced some issues with SonicWall TZ and they are lacking some advanced features other vendors have."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"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."
"We encounter issues while generating new reports."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos UTM report.
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