We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"The filtering is excellent."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"They need to integrate more with the SD-WAN."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"The pricing model makes this product far more expensive than similar solutions."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"SonicWall NSa's reporting could be improved."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"I would like to see better integration."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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