We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is stable."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The performance is good."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"Sometimes I have some queries, and the SonicWall support team resolves my queries."
"One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity."
"The stability is better than other products."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"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 most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the control aspect of the solution."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"Vendor support needs improvement. The frequency of time and support should be increased."
"Having to deal with too many lower-level people in technical support means that it takes longer to resolve issues, so escalating support tickets should be faster."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". McAfee StoneGate [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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