We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, SonicWall TZ outperforms Fortinet FortiGate in several key areas, including more satisfaction with features, service, and support and fewer complaints on pricing.
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"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."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Good VPN connection."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"The most valuable features have been content filtering, and the interface is easy to navigate and to use."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"In terms of what needs to be improved, I would say better load balancing and data filtering."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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