We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"The stability is very nice."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"There are various reports that come with the box or with the VMware, but you can only run them daily."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"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."
"From a support perspective, if we're talking tech support I think Silver Partners, Gold Partners, Platinum, whatever level, should have a different number to call. End users can call tech support over at SonicWall if they've paid for support as part of their AGSS or whatever services they bought. The end-user can call, or we can call, however, I don't want to be calling the same line that an end user's calling. I don't want the same response time. I need a different level of expertise."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"Getting support can be slow."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while SonicWall TZ 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". 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 TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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