We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sonicwall TZ based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Of the two solutions, Sonicwall TZ seems to be the more desirable product because of its easy deployment, great set of features, and affordable price.
"It is a safe product."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The high-availability features, the VPN and the IPSec, are our top three features."
"Cisco tech is always good and helpful. I would rate them as 10 out of 10."
"To be honest, all of the features that are provided, all the other vendor will also have. One feature we did find valuable was the CLI, it is more accurate. Additionally, I was happy with the customization, dashboards, access lists and interface."
"It is a highly stable product. We rarely receive any serious outdates, so it works quite well."
"The most valuable feature is that the encryption is solid."
"The most valuable feature that Cisco Firepower NGFW provides for us is the Intrusion policy."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"The stability is very nice."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The site-to-site VPN connections, content filtering, and in our current remote working situation, SSL VPN remote desktop connectivity are the most valuable features."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"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."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"There is no support here in Georgia. If something goes wrong, support is not always very helpful with the other firewalls or other products."
"This product is managed using the Firepower Management Center (FMC), but it would be better if it also supported the command-line interface (CLI)."
"The ability to integrate (as options) all-in-one features -- like anti-spam, anti-virus, etc."
"The use of it has really bogged down our response time for certain problems, given we have to go through AT&T for everything."
"Cisco should work on ASDM. One of the biggest drawbacks of Cisco ASA is ASDM GUI. Cisco should improve the ASDM GUI. The configuration through ASDM is really difficult as compared to CLI. Sometimes when you are doing the configuration in ASDM, it suddenly crashes. It also crashes while pushing a policy. Cisco should really work on this."
"Intrusion prevention, we currently need to apply deep bracket inspection manually to use web filtering."
"The graphical interface should be improved to make the configuration easier, to do things with a single click."
"The integration between the on-prem proxy world and the cloud proxy would benefit us. One single policy setting would make sense."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"The stability could be a lot better."
"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."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"We encounter issues while generating new reports."
"User interface could be improved."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Azure Firewall, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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