We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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 a safe product."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The technical support is great."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"It is a scalable solution."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"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."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"Sonic Analyzer could be improved. It's difficult to manage and not very intuitive."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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