We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"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."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"The cost could be lower. There could also be more flexibility for smaller companies."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"The user interface could be better."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"The filter settings are confusing and overly complicated. The user interface can be improved."
Earn 20 points
Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point VPN-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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