We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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 response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"It offers application control features."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a brilliant product. It is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) system. It has got about 11 security services that take care of your perimeter security. It takes care of any kind of cyber threats that could come in. It takes care of creating VPNs between two SonicWalls instantly and very easily. It has got spyware in it as well as a firewall. It has also got a gateway antivirus and an application firewall that can block things from outside."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"The stability is better than other products."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"SonicWall's technical support is very good."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The pricing could always be better."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"One area for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the GUI. It isn't easy to understand. The support for SonicWall NSa is mediocre, which is another area for improvement."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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