We performed a comparison between ShieldX and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."
"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."
"ShieldX has been designed from the very beginning to work well in cloud environments. It understands autoscaling, automation, and auto-configuration. These are the things which are important in today's operating environment."
"...It takes the exact same policies that you would apply to your on-premise environment and enables you to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features are security and technical support."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"There should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports. It would be nice to have a quarterly or biannual review of what ShieldX has blocked."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
"With any kind of tool like ShieldX, where you're in the cloud instead of a traditional firewall, you're using CPU resources in those environments to provide the protection. So there's a cost associated with CPU resources. I'm pressing upon them to make the product much more efficient and use less CPUs to do the same thing."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."
"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so. As the vendor continues to evolve and add future functionality, we want to make sure that we are still keeping up with the integrations, etc. Time will be the key factor here. The proper support for some of the latest technologies, Docker containers, etc. They need to keep up with threat landscape, so we will see how the security get layered. This is what we are going to be keeping an eye on."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"The price could be better for us in Bolivia."
"User interface could be improved."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
Earn 20 points
ShieldX is ranked 46th in Firewalls while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. ShieldX is rated 9.2, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ShieldX writes "Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". ShieldX 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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