We performed a comparison between GajShield Next Generation Firewall and SonicWall TZ 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 is a good source for firewall protection."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The solution's outcome is very high, and we often use it in a very high-traffic environment."
"The most valuable feature of the GajShield Next Generation Firewall is the user-friendly settings, dashboards, and anti-threat protection. Additionally, the solution upgrades frequently which is good because we receive new features."
"It is a stable solution."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Sometimes, we have to use SD-WAN support for the solution, which can be improved by adapting some features that will help our approach to network services."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall could improve the flow of the settings. If somebody's using a Cisco firewall or any other brand and they want to use GajShield Next Generation Firewall the platform's UI is a bit different. If it was more similar to the others it would be better."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"Sometimes there is a glitch between the network connection. Last time, something happened on our IP phone, the SonicWall team did some updates to fix the issue. However, glitches happen very rarely. I did not experience any other types of problems."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"We require centralized monitoring of the network features, which they have but they are not to the level that we require."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "User-friendly settings, frequent updates, and responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, WiJungle and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our GajShield Next Generation Firewall vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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