We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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 solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"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."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It can expand easily."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"The solution can autoscale."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"The technical support is very good."
"The product is simple to manage."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"The stability is better than other products."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"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."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The support system could be improved."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Azure Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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