We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Sophos XGS 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."This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The performance is good."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The solution is stable."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"It's a stable solution."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"The solution is stable."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"Sophos XGS' best features are simplicity and its built-in reporting tool."
"The solution is scalable."
"The threat intelligence capabilities of the tool are good."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos is the VPN solution. I also value their threat management, IPS IDS features and login features with single sign-on."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"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."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Support for SonicWall TZ needs improvement, particularly the time it takes before you're able to speak to a support person, e.g. you have to wait for at least 30 minutes on the phone."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
"The products' reporting can be improved."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"Support could be improved."
"Sophos' technical support has degraded in the last couple of years. They seem to need to ask a lot of questions, even with simple problems, and take a long time to provide solutions."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"They should customers who are facing issues with their product reviews; they found bots in it. If they can do their proper research and use the user analysis and testing, that would greatly help the clients."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"I rate Sophos' support five out of 10. It's sometimes difficult to contact them, and finding a solution is not easy."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
"The stability could be a bit better."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 59 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos XGS report.
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