We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa 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."The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"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."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"Web filtering and intrusion detection are essential features. As system integrators, we also like the dashboard because it's easier to configure all the features."
"XGS' most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"The solution is very user-friendly, and the GUI is so good that I don't have to use the CLI. This eliminates the need for typing; clicking allows me to get to what I'm looking for."
"It's easy to deploy and connect."
"It's easy to use and user-friendly."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We are happy and satisfied with all the features."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"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."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"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."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"One issue with the solution is that no authorization or authentication features exist."
"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."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"Sophos XGS could improve the automation system. It could be better if there was some level of automation, attacks automation, meaning if this happens, then it automatically executes a particular process."
"The support team are helpful when you eventually get hold of them which takes a long time. They can improve how quickly you get technical support."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"Areas for improvement in Sophos XGS include better balance when handling high availability configurations, smoother firmware upgrades without the need for turning off devices, and simplified configuration after firmware updates."
"It would be good if we could do dual customization."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"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."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSv, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos XGS report.
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