We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."The interface is very good."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The technical support is great."
"It is a safe product."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"The functionality is the same whether it is on hardware or a virtual appliance. The interface is the same. It's nice that it's standardized."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The solution is easy to use."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
"Vendor support needs improvement. The frequency of time and support should be increased."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
"Sometimes I found the GUI and some of the features a little bit hard to navigate, as opposed to Fortigate, which is much more user-friendly."
"Having to deal with too many lower-level people in technical support means that it takes longer to resolve issues, so escalating support tickets should be faster."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"This product is unable to secure access to endpoints for our external employees."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and OPNsense. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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