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 pricing is great and very reasonable."
"It is a safe product."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Technical support is very good."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"Since SonicWall is a UTM, we have enabled all the features: antivirus, IPS, URL filtering, and content filtering. All of these features are working fine."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The support for YouTube or the Internet is not enough."
"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."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications."
"The tool is expensive."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"After-sales support and hands-on training facilities are not available in my country."
"The dashboard must be improved."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM, 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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