We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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."The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The performance is good."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"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."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Technical support is very good."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"It is a stable solution."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"Easy to setup and implement"
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"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."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The support for YouTube or the Internet is not enough."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
"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."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"This product is unable to secure access to endpoints for our external employees."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"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."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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