We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"The stability is very nice."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The solution is very expensive."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"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."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The reports are very basic."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"I would like them to make the interface a little bit easier to use so you can find out where in the heck you're going instead of having to go to 15 different places to get something installed."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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