We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"It's offering great security while also being rather easy to manage."
"The documentation is simple to understand and is easily available."
"The information stored in the logs is very descriptive and includes a lot of details."
"Only allows authorized connections and prevents vulnerabilities in a network."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. You can customize it and change it as you need."
"Its functionality is highly satisfactory."
"Apart from it having very good features, I personally like the vulnerability assistance via report management which detects host and network vulnerability."
"When applying application control, we can ensure user access to the internet in accordance with company policy and easy implementation if some users need exception access."
"The filtering is excellent."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"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 ease of use could be improved."
"With the increase of volume of traffic, the required resource/hardware to properly run goes up. Therefore, the hardware engineering to architecture flow has to be more efficient."
"The Check Point support needs a lot of improvement."
"Although very efficient, the product could be developed in a way that does not take a lot more system resources."
"Improvement regarding the expansion of the SMS's compatibility to include various virtualization environments would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in application-based filtering, as with other firewalls available in the market today."
"The only thing that we've seen is instances where console and administrative interfaces get locked up or freeze, and we have to get the machine rebooted."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive. In the pricing structure, however, they need improvement."
"Third-party integration could be improved."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"One issue with the solution is that no authorization or authentication features exist."
"The content ID needs to be improved."
"SonicWall NSa's reporting could be improved."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 276 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Sangfor NGAF, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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