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 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."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"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."
"The most valuable feature I've found is VPN and web protection, particularly with navigation assessment. We use the application control feature to create rules controlling specific application navigation."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"I like this solution because we are focused on VPN and have many brands that need to link a VPN and have security, like ransomware, spyware, and basic protection."
"The solution can scale."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"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."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Application management can be improved."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
"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 content filter needs to be improved."
"The reporting and monitoring are a bit complex and should be easier in SonicWall NSa because other firewalls I have experienced have been more simple, such as Palo Alto. We are able to receive a clear view of our network. As a general user with little experience, it would be difficult for them to handle."
"We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"It doesn't require much improvement. The only improvement area is that cloud reporting, assessment reporting, and other reporting features should be available with the subscription. They should provide reporting features with the subscription base, which is currently not there. We bought the reporting tool, but there are some complications. They have made some changes to the application, and now the reporting management is completely on the cloud."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"They could reduce the price."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 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 Sangfor NGAF, 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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