We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls.
"Stability, high availability of services, and very high MTBU were the most valuable features for me."
"Cisco ASA Firewall is a well known product. They're always updating it, and you know what they're doing and that it works."
"The features I have found most valuable are the ASA firewalls. I like to have features like most integrated systems in ACI."
"It has definitely improved our organization. It gives us remote connectivity, helps workers connect remotely, and also gives us good connectivity to our other branches."
"We moved from a legacy firewall to the ASA with FirePOWER, increasing our Internet Edge defense dramatically."
"Simple to deploy, stable."
"The CLI is the most valuable feature. This solution is very flexible and offers different functionality including firewalls and VPN connectivity."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"The product is simple to manage."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"This is an older product and has reached end-of-life."
"I would like it if they made the newer generation a bit simpler. You can do ASA code and FXOS. It is just a bit confusing with the newer generational equipment on what it can do."
"The interface for monitoring could be improved to allow better views to make troubleshooting easier."
"We are still running the original ASAs. The software that you are running for the ASDM software and Java application has never been a lot of fun to operate. It would have been nice to see that change update be redesigned with modern systems, which don't play nicely with Java sometimes. Cybersecurity doesn't seem to love how that operates. For us, a fresher application, taking advantage of the hardware, would have been a better approach."
"<p>If there is old hardware, or appliances, it does not necessarily work with the new Cisco generation firewalls."
"The licensing needs simplification."
"One feature lacking is superior anti-virus protection, which must be added."
"This solution could be more granular and user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"It needs more available central management."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
"I would like to have a built-in vulnerability scanner in the firewall. It would be great to have such functionality. Its price could also be better. It would also be good to have a local warehouse. It doesn't get damaged a lot, but if a customer needs a replacement, currently, it has to come from Miami or Mexico, which can take a few days. It would be better if they have a local warehouse from where we can just pick replacements and quickly solve a client's needs in terms of replacing equipment. It would be great to have it locally instead of waiting for it from Mexico or the USA."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
