We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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."
"The solution is scalable."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The filtering was very good."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The solution is very robust."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the control aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"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."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Application management can be improved."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"The interface needs improvement."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"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."
"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 content filter needs to be improved."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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