We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation 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."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"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 most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"The solution can scale."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product could expand its throughput capacity."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"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."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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