We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The solution is stable."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The filtering was very good."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The solution is very robust."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"The network security is great."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The stability is very nice."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The interface needs improvement."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The price could be better for us in Bolivia."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The marketing of SonicWall has to be increased. Currently, when it comes to firewalls, most people go for Cisco and Palo Alto. SonicWall should improve its marketing and branding policies to increase sales. Other than that, it is good."
"It could be made more user friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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