We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [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 valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The network security is great."
"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."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"Full monitoring obviously needs to be improved. We need full monitoring covered under the security licensing."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
Earn 20 points
McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox.
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