We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"Sometimes I found the GUI and some of the features a little bit hard to navigate, as opposed to Fortigate, which is much more user-friendly."
"We also use the Sophos Firewall for web configuration, which we don't have in SonicWall. Only Sophos has those options. If SonicWall included that feature, that would be a benefit for us."
"After-sales support and hands-on training facilities are not available in my country."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Azure Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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