We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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."It is quite easy to handle."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"It is a scalable solution."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It could be made more user friendly."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"An additional feature that I would like to see is reporting that includes metrics to give me more information about the number of viruses that it has actually detected and interrupted."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos UTM report.
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