We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa 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."The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"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 valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"The technical support is very good."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"It's a stable solution."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"SonicWall NSa's reporting could be improved."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSv, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos UTM report.
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