We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and SonicWall NSSP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The product offers very good security."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"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."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa.
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