We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 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 IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"It offers a seamless transition from one option to another, making it exceptionally versatile and user-friendly in an enterprise setting."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"The direct profiles is a valuable feature."
"The reporting feature and application ID functionality within Palo Alto Networks PA-Series are incredibly valuable to us."
"The cloud-based aspect helps significantly. It integrates seamlessly with other Palo products like Prisma Cloud, offers robust VPN protection, and it's all in one convenient package."
"The solution is robust."
"I like the tool's security and web filtering features."
"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."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous."
"SonicWall provides endpoint security with advanced protection. Moreover, SonicWall includes access points and additional features."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"The technical support is very good."
"I like that SonicWall NSa is a stable product. It's also a scalable product."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Palo Alto should integrate artificial intelligence for security purposes in the background for well-known threats and new risks coming to the market."
"The SD-WAN feature of Palo Alto Networks is not good compared to FortiGate."
"In future releases, maybe Palo Alto can enhance and enlarge their portfolio with SIEM solutions. They already have an endpoint protection solution, SOAR solution, that's fine. But when it comes to standalone IDS/IPS solution or email security solution, for example, we don't have any product in that category for Palo Alto."
"Utilizing these features as a unified solution can require additional setup, particularly when incorporating Panorama for centralized management, which may involve extra costs."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution."
"With Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, I find that the support team takes a long time to resolve the issues that a user may face during the use of the product."
"The product's gateway services can be improved."
"As we migrate fully into the cloud, additional features like capacity upgrading and improvements to hardware resources will be necessary, especially since our equipment consists of older-generation switches and routers."
"The filter settings are confusing and overly complicated. The user interface can be improved."
"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."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"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."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"We also use the Sophos Firewall for web configuration, which we don't have in SonicWall. Only Sophos has those options. If SonicWall included that feature, that would be a benefit for us."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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